{"id":15449,"date":"2026-03-05T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=15449"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T03:54:48","slug":"cubit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/cubit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_15450\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15450\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/190613-tourguide-hands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/190613-tourguide-hands.jpg\" alt=\"tourguide\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the forearm, measuring from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, generally accepted as approximately 18 inches (45.7 cm). While varying by region and era, it was commonly divided into 6 palms or 24 digits. The Egyptian Royal Cubit was longer, about 20.6 inches (52.5 cm).<br \/>Common Cubit: ~17.5\u201318 inches (44.5\u201346 cm).<br \/>Royal\/Long Cubit: ~19.8\u201320.6 inches (50\u201352.5 cm).<br \/>Origins: Used by ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, and Israelites; dating back nearly 5,000 years.<br \/>Bible References: Noah\u2019s Ark, Goliath\u2019s height, and temple measurements are given in cubits.<br \/>Modern Equivalence: Roughly 1.5 feet or a half meter.&#8211;Gemini<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>tour guide down the street from Diocletian&#8217;s Palace, Split<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tour guide down the street from Diocletian&#8217;s Palace, Split<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[142,26,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-142","category-parts","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15454,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15449\/revisions\/15454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}