139 occurrences in 12 translations

'Length' in the Bible

The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

Verse ConceptsAbel and Cain500 Years And MoreFathers And Daughters

And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthHeightLengthBroadnessDimensions Of Other Thingsmathstructuremeasurement

Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Verse ConceptsBreadthLengthWalkingDirectionland

This is the length of Ishmael’s life: 137 years. He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people.

Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100Age At DeathGathered To One's People

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.

Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100Age, Span Of Life15 To 20 YearsAge At Death

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

Verse ConceptsAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAge At Death

The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was one hundred and thirty-three years.

Verse ConceptsAge At Death

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

Verse ConceptsMothers, Examples OfAaron, Ancestry And GenealogyAge At DeathMarrying RelativesDadsSiblingsTrust In RelationshipsFather And Daughter Relationshipsgrandfathers

Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Verse ConceptsLength100 Years And MoreLiving In The Land

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsBreadthWeights And Measures, LinearAcacia WoodChestsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Verse ConceptsMercy SeatDimensions Of Temple FurnitureCovering The ArkGold Items For The TabernaclPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]

Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

Verse ConceptsCovering The TabernacleSurplus

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Other Things

And thou hast made the altar of shittim wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth -- the altar is square -- and three cubits its height.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightWoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSacrifice On The Bronze AltarSetting Up The Bronze Altar

And thou hast made the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit is the length for the one side,

Verse ConceptsLinenMaking The TabernacleLinen Items

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Verse ConceptsTwentyPillars For The TabernacleBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

Verse ConceptsLinen ItemsBronze Items For The Tabernacle

Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesWeights And Measures, LinearSquaresDoubled OverDimensions Of Other Things

A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.

Verse ConceptsSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

Verse ConceptsSame Sizes

The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Other Things

And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureCovering The ArkGold Items For The TabernaclPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

Verse ConceptsAcacia WoodDimensions Of Temple Furniture

And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

Verse ConceptsBreadthAltar Of IncenseSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureOne Material Thing

And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsWoodAcacia WoodSquaresDimensions Of Temple FurnitureSetting Up The Bronze Altar

Then he made the courtyard. The hangings on the south side of the courtyard were of finely spun linen, 150 feet in length,

Verse ConceptsLinenLinen Items

The hangings on the north side were also 150 feet in length, including their 20 posts and 20 bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenTwentyBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The hangings on the west side were 75 feet in length, including their 10 posts and 10 bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsWest Sides

The hangings on the east toward the sunrise were also 75 feet in length.

And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.

Verse ConceptsembroideryColors, BlueGates Of The TempleRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothBlue Purple And Scarlet

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesWeights And Measures, LinearSquaresDoubled OverDimensions Of Other Things

According to the length of the years you shall increase its price, and according to the shortness of the years you shall diminish its price; for he is selling the number of the crops to you.

Verse ConceptsAccording To Timepotential

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Verse ConceptsGenerations30 To 40 YearsDeath As Punishment

For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBedsIronMetalsGiantsIron ObjectsSole SurvivorsDimensions Of Other Things

That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodGod, Living And Self sustainingGod, The CreatorGod Of The FathersOrigins Of Spiritual LifeLove Towards God, Results InAncestorsLife Through Keeping The LawThe Need To Love God

But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

Verse ConceptsThighsTwo SidedDimensions Of Other ThingsOther Right Parts

And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.

Verse ConceptsWeights And Measures, DistancesTwenty

The length of time that David lived in the Philistine countryside was a year and four months.

Verse ConceptsOne Year

And Saul fell straightway his full length on the earth, and was sore afraid because of the words of Samuel; and there was no strength in him, for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night.

Verse ConceptsdiseasesFear, Caused ByAnxiety, Examples OfOne DayPeople TumblingNo Strength Left

The length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

Verse ConceptsLengthSeven Years

He also defeated the Moabites, and after making them lie down on the ground, he measured them off with a cord. He measured every two cord lengths of those to be put to death and one length of those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersLengthTaxationTributesDividing Into Three GroupsThose Subjected To People

The length of time David reigned over Israel was 40 years: he reigned seven years in Hebron and 33 years in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number FortySeven Years30 To 40 Years40 To 50 Years

If you will live life my way, keeping my statutes and my commands, just like your father David did, I'll also increase the length of your life."

Verse ConceptsAgingCommands, in OTKingship, HumanLife, HumanReward, DivineHow To Live LongKeep The Commandments!

And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

Verse ConceptsBreadthBuildingHeightDimensions Of Buildingsfreemasonry

And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

Verse ConceptsPorchesDimensions Of Chambers

And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

Verse ConceptsCubesDimensions Of ChambersOverlaid With WoodCedar Wood

One wing of the cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was also five cubits long; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Temple Furniture

He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

Verse ConceptsBeamsForestsBreadthBuildingFour SupportsRoyal HousesDimensions Of BuildingsCedar Wood

And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

Verse ConceptsHousesHallsDimensions Of Buildings

And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsDimensions Of Temple FurnitureBronze Items For The Tabernacle

The length of Solomon’s reign in Jerusalem over all Israel totaled 40 years.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsThe Number Forty40 To 50 Years

The length of Jeroboam’s reign was 22 years. He rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place.

Verse ConceptsSleep, And Death20 To 30 YearsKings Of The Northern KingdomList Of Kings Of Israel

The length of Jehu’s reign over Israel in Samaria was 28 years.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsList Of Kings Of Israel

as well as the rows of the bread of the Presence, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of volume and length.

Verse ConceptsFoodConsecrated BreadShowbread

The length of his reign over Israel was 40 years; he reigned in Hebron for seven years and in Jerusalem for 33.

Verse ConceptsThe Number FortySeven Years30 To 40 Years40 To 50 Years

Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

Verse ConceptsFoundationsBreadthThe First Templeconstructionmeasurement

And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

Verse ConceptsPorchesDimensions Of Chambers

And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

Verse ConceptsLengthMost Holy PlaceDimensions Of Chambers

The overall length of the wings of the cherubim was 30 feet: the wing of one was 7½ feet, touching the wall of the room; its other wing was 7½ feet, touching the wing of the other cherub.

Verse ConceptsCherubim

And he maketh at the front of the house two pillars, thirty and five cubits in length, and the ornament that is on their heads five cubits.

Verse ConceptsTwo Parts Of Constructions

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

Verse ConceptsBreadthSacrifice On The Bronze AltarSetting Up The Bronze Altar

for Solomon hath made a scaffold of brass, and putteth it in the midst of the court, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he standeth upon it, and kneeleth on his knees over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth forth his hands towards the heavens --

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

All of this fulfilled what the LORD had predicted through Jeremiah. And so the land enjoyed its Sabbaths, and the length of the land's desolation lasted until a 70-year long Sabbath had been completed.

Verse ConceptsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtSeventy70 To 80 Years

Now, be it known to the king, that if this city be builded, and the walls finished, toll, tribute, and custom they do not give; and at length to the kings it doth cause loss.

Verse ConceptsTaxationTributes

I said to myself, 'Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.'

Verse ConceptsAgingExperimental KnowledgeCharacters Of Old PeopleWisdomAgeThe ElderlyMaturityexperience

He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.

Verse ConceptsLengthChrist's LifeGod Answered Prayer

You, indeed, have made my days short in length,and my life span as nothing in Your sight.Yes, every mortal man is only a vapor.Selah

Verse ConceptsPhysical LifeWeights And Measures, LinearVanityMan A Mere BreathPsalm InterjectionsPerspective

Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely is holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!

Verse ConceptsMaking People HolyHolinesscredibility

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Verse ConceptsTreatment From YouthSoft TreatmentslaveryRaising Children

A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,

Verse ConceptsUnburied BodiesOne HundredNo BurialsLiving LongMiscarriages And StillbornLack Of A Proper BurialThe More Children The BetterDadsDeath Of A ChildRaising ChildrenLiveBeing A Good FatherDeath Of A FatherHaving A Good DayBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeHaving A BabyLeaving Parents For Spousefatherhood

“You were tired out by the length of your road,Yet you did not say, ‘It is hopeless.’You found renewed strength,Therefore you did not faint.

Verse ConceptsTired In ActivityHope And StrengthStaying Strong And Not Giving UpRenewalNever Giving Upgreatnesstired

I hear my dear people crying out throughout the length and breadth of the land. They are crying, 'Is the Lord no longer in Zion? Is her divine King no longer there?'" The Lord answers, "Why then do they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign idols?"

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodGod Opposes IdolatryPeople From Far Away

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

Verse ConceptsWater For PlantsBeauty Of Thingsgreatness

Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of 21 inches; each unit was the standard length plus three inches. He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was about 10 feet, and its height was the same.

Verse ConceptsLengthWeights And Measures, LinearDimensions Of WallsDimensions Of Other Things

And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Doorways

And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysPavementsAccording To Things

And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of BuildingsNorth GatesMeasuring The Temple

And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSame SizesThree Parts Of ConstructionsRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysWindows For The Temple

The measurements of its guardhouses, its side pillars, and its porches were identical to the others. The gate and its porches contained windows all around. The length of the porch was 50 cubits and its width was 25 cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysPillars For Ezekiel's TempleWindows For The TempleSame SizesRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

As to the arches all round about, the length is five and twenty cubits, and the breadth five cubits;

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of ChambersRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

The measurement of its guardhouses, side pillars, and porches was identical to the others. The gate and its porches contained windows all around. The length of the porch was 50 cubits and its width was 25 cubits,

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysPillars For Ezekiel's TempleWindows For The TempleSame SizesRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

The little chambers thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, and the windows to it round about: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of DoorwaysPillars For Ezekiel's TempleWindows For The TempleRooms Of Ezekiel's Temple

And the four tables for burnt-offering are of hewn stone: the length one cubit and a half, and the breadth one cubit and a half, and the height one cubit: on them they place the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.

Verse ConceptsStoneworkDimensions Of Temple FurnitureStone ItemsFour Other ThingsKilling Sacrifices

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ארך 
'arak 
Usage: 34

ארך 
'orek 
length , long , ever , as long as , high
Usage: 95

μῆκος 
mekos 
Usage: 3

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