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The oldest known standard of measurement is the cubit, which was used in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. The cubit was typically the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.
A cubit and a footstep are a type of archaic unit of length that was mostly used during the Middle Ages. It is not used as a standard unit of length today because they were not proven to be consistant lengths.
The ancient measurement system of which applied to early greeks, romans, egyptians, arabs, and parts of Gaul and Spain; Is Shinto.
The old unit of measurement refers to various systems of measurement that were used in the past, before the standardized system of measurement was introduced. Examples of old units of measurement include the cubit, the fathom, the league, and the stone.
In ancient Sumeria, tools such as cubit rods, rulers, and measuring ropes made from reeds were used to measure distances, areas, and volumes. The standard unit of measurement was the cubit, which was based on the length of a person's forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.
"cubit feet" is nonsense; there's no such measurement. "cubic feet" is a valid unit of measurement, but it's a volume measurement and cannot be converted into pounds, a weight measurement.
Few ancient measurements were 'standard'. Generally two people doing business agreed on the standard between them. A cubit was a body-based measurement - supposedly the length of a forearm. To the best of my knowledge, only the 'carob' was a standard measurment - as the seeds of the carob are, apparently, always the same weight.
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A cubic cubit is an ancient Egyptian measurement of volume. An example 1 cubic cubit is equal to 144 litres.
A cubit and a footstep are a type of archaic unit of length that was mostly used during the Middle Ages. It is not used as a standard unit of length today because they were not proven to be consistant lengths.
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The cubit, an ancient measure known to have been used for over 4,000 years, was based on the distance between the tip of the middle finger and the elbow of an individual, about 17 to 22 inches. It's was abandoned many years ago when standard measurements were developed for international trade.
The ancient measurement system of which applied to early greeks, romans, egyptians, arabs, and parts of Gaul and Spain; Is Shinto.
A standard 'cubit' is the distance from a man's elbow to the tip of the middle finger. (Deuteronomy 3:11) It's generally considered to be about 17.5 inches.
The earliest known length measurement unit is the cubit: the length from the point of a bent elbow to the tip of the longest finger. Because this length varies from person to person the King's arm was used as the standard cubit and "cubit rods" were cut to that length and used by everyone else to measure lengths and distances. Other units were determined similarly: the standard foot being the length of the king's foot, the inch is the length of 3 barley corns placed end to end, etc.