Kilometers to Sabbath Days' Journeys (km to sabbath)

1 kilometer equals 0.9259259259 Sabbath days' journeys (rounded).

1 kilometer = 0.9259259259 Sabbath days' journeys

How to convert kilometers to Sabbath days' journeys

To convert kilometers to Sabbath days' journeys, multiply the number of kilometers by 0.9259259259. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply Sabbath days' journeys by 1.08.

Sabbath days' journeys = kilometers × 0.9259259259

Example: 10 kilometers = 9.259259259 Sabbath days' journeys.

Approximate value. Standards for the Sabbath day's journey varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Kilometer (km)

Metric (SI)Current unit

1,000 meters. The standard unit for road distances in most countries.

A name for 1,000 meters took a while to settle. In 1793 France's National Convention made the metre the sole French unit of length, and the first proposed name for the thousand-metre multiple was millaire. Everyday French usage then leaned on the myriametre, 10,000 meters, well into the 1800s. The Netherlands adopted the kilometre in 1817, under the local name mijl, and made it the only official unit of that size in 1867. In 1935 the CIPM dropped the myria- prefix, which left the kilometre as the standard unit for road-scale distances.

Kilo- is the SI prefix for a thousand, and the kilometre is now the preferred unit for land distances in most of the world, with the United States, the United Kingdom and Liberia among those that still use the mile. One kilometre is about 0.621 mile. The main span of Lisbon's 25 de Abril Bridge, at 1.013 km, gives a sense of the scale. Even its pronunciation has been argued over: in 1970 Australia's Metric Conversion Board made stress on the first syllable official, although Prime Minister Gough Whitlam argued for stress on the second. Military slang in several countries calls it a klick.

1 kilometer = 1,000 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Kilometre; Wikipedia: Metric prefix; BIPM: history of the metre

Sabbath Day's Journey (sabbath)

Biblical (Hebrew)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

About 2,000 cubits (roughly 1.08 km), the distance a person could walk on the Sabbath according to rabbinic tradition.

Jewish law limits how far a person may travel from a town on the Sabbath, and that limit is the techum shabbat. It is set at 2,000 cubits beyond the settlement boundary, the same distance known as a biblical mile. The phrase Sabbath day's journey is the traditional English name, and the distance was also used to measure the spacing of towns in the Herodian era, for instance Sepphoris to Tiberias at 18 such miles.

The metric value depends on the cubit chosen. Taking a cubit of 46 to 60 cm gives a range of about 960 m to 1,152 m, and the figure used here, about 1.08 km, comes from the 54 cm rabbinic cubit. That is about two thirds of an English statute mile, or roughly six Greek stadia. Most authorities reckon it at about 18 minutes of walking, while Maimonides gave 20 to 24 minutes. An eruv techumin can add a second mile to the permitted limit.

1 Sabbath day's journey = 1,080 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Sabbath day's journey (biblical mile); Wikipedia: Cubit

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