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Spithama

SPITHAMA, a sort of Measure, of the Length of about a Foot. This Word is not found in the Vulgate, but it is in the Greek, Judg. iii. 16. where it answers to the Hebrew Word Gomed,1 which is a Measure whose Length is unknown. Spithama is also read in the Greek, Exodus xxviii. 16. xxxix. vii. & 1 Sam. xvii. 4. Isai. xl. 12. Ezek. xliii. 14. where it answers the Hebrew Word Zereth,2 which signifies half a Cubit, or ten Inches and something more.

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  1. גמרGomed. It is not found in the Sense of a Measure but only in Judg. iii. 16. ↩

  2. זרתPalmus, seu Semicubitus. ↩

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