Kanch

The Kanch , according to various other authors also the Kaneh in its spelling and fathom , was a Hebrew measure of length. The measure today would correspond to the rod . The corresponding metric dimensions can be found in the articles of the individual dimensions of the dimensional chain.

1 Kanch = 6 Amah / Ammah / Gomed ( cubits ) = 12 Zereth ( span ) = 36 Tephach (palm) = 144 Ezbesh / Etzba / Ezbah (fingers) about 2,966 meters
333 1/3 Kanch = 2 Gibrath = 1 Sabbath way (Hebrew.)
1 Kanch = 3 Pesia ( step )
1 Kanch = 9 Seraim ( feet )
1 Kanch = 72 Sithah (double inches)
1 Kanch = 144 Ezbah ( inches )

literature

Joseph Salomon: Metrological tables on the dimensions, weights and coins of different countries. Geistinger'sche Buchhandlung, Vienna 1823, p. 178.
Gustav Karsten, G. Weyer, F. Harms: General Encyclopedia of Physics. Volume 1, Leopold Voss, Leipzig 1869, p. 428.

Individual evidence

↑ Heinrich von Gerstenbergk: Palestine or the Jewish land at the time of Jesus, as well as the most important, apart from this, countries and places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments. Verlag Schöne'schen Buchhandlung, Eisenberg 1847, p. 108.

[1] Heinrich von Gerstenbergk: Palestine or the Jewish land at the time of Jesus, as well as the most important, apart from this, countries and places mentioned in the Old and New Testaments. Verlag Schöne'schen Buchhandlung, Eisenberg 1847, p. 108.