Hand (unit) Biblical exegesis the hand measurement, as for example in the Vision of the Temple, Authorized Version , is usually taken to be palm or handbreadth, and in modern translations may be rendered as "handbreadth" or "three inches". The hand is a traditional unit in the UK. It was standardised at four inches by a statute of King Henry VIII in 1540, but some confusion between the various types of hand measurement, and particularly between the hand and the handsbreadth, appears to have persisted. Phillips's dictionary of 1706 gives four inches for the length of the handful or hand, and three
Height Height Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is). For example, "The height of that building is 50 m" or "The height of an airplane is about 10,000 m". When the term is used to describe vertical position (of, e.g., an airplane) from sea level, height is more often called "altitude". Furthermore, if the point is attached to the Earth (e.g., a mountain peak), then altitude (height above sea level) is called "elevation". In a Cartesian space, height is measured along the vertical axis (y)