. . . "Ancient Hebrew units of length or distance"@en . "Ancient Hebrew units of length or distance are mentioned in the Bible, but their values in terms of modern units are open to some speculation. The only way of determining the length of any Ancient Hebrew unit would be to measure something in modern terms whose length was given by the Hebrews in their units. Unlike the Attic Greek and Ancient Roman units, there are not good examples of such measurable objects, so much of the information we have is based on guesswork. According to Cardarelli they are based upon two different standards: The table in Wikipedia is somewhat different, giving a range, which includes Cardarelli's secular values near the upper limit, but does not reach his values for the sacred system: It should be noted that the transliterations are according to the modern Israeli pronunciation, accounting for the difference between zeret and Cardarelli's zereth, which more closely approximates the pronunciation in ancient times. Also, the mil and parasa are importations, the former from Roman usage, the latter from Persian."@en . . . . "Ancient Hebrew units of length or distance are mentioned in the Bible, but their values in terms of modern units are open to some speculation. The only way of determining the length of any Ancient Hebrew unit would be to measure something in modern terms whose length was given by the Hebrews in their units. Unlike the Attic Greek and Ancient Roman units, there are not good examples of such measurable objects, so much of the information we have is based on guesswork. According to Cardarelli they are based upon two different standards:"@en .