cubit = span. Compare Luk_12:26. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Subject), App-6, for a very small thing, as in Psa_39:5, where the Greek pechus is used as the rendering of Hebrew. 'ammah.
stature. Used elsewhere of age in Joh_9:21, Joh_9:23. Heb_11:11, and of stature in Luk_19:3. Doubtful in Mat_6:27. Luk_2:52. Eph_4:13.