Etzba

Etzba , Ezbah , was a Hebrew measure of length and meant something like finger width.

• 1 Etzba = 2.06 centimeters
• 4 Etzba = 1 Tephach (hand width)
• 24 Etzba = 1 Ammah ( cubit )

literature

• Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit dictionary. Friedrich Vieweg and Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-06987-2 , p. 131.
• Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. A lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim et al. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 85.