Meaning
Measure Dry:
- 1. Bushel, about a peck
Mat 5:15; Mar 4:21; Luk 11:33
- 2. Cab, or kab, about two quarts
2Ki 6:25
- 3. Cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels
1Ki 4:22; 1Ki 5:11; 2Ch 2:10; 2Ch 27:5; Ezr 7:22
- 4. Ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half
Exo 16:36; Lev 5:11; Lev 6:20; Lev 19:36; Num 5:15; Num 28:5; Jdg 6:19; Rth 2:17; 1Sa 1:24; 1Sa 17:17; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:11; Eze 45:13; Eze 45:24; Eze 46:5; Eze 46:7; Eze 46:11; Eze 46:14; Amo 8:5; Zec 5:10
- 5. Half-homer, about five and a half bushels
Hos 3:2
- 6. Homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs
Lev 27:16; Num 11:32; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:14; Hos 3:2
- 7. Omer, about one bushel
Exo 16:16; Exo 16:18; Exo 16:22; Exo 16:33; Exo 16:36
- 8. Seah, about a peck and a half
Gen 18:6; 1Sa 25:18; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 7:1; 2Ki 7:16; 2Ki 7:18
- 9. Tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah
Exo 29:40; Lev 14:10; Lev 14:21; Lev 23:13; Lev 23:17; Lev 24:5; Num 15:4; Num 15:6; Num 15:9; Num 28:9; Num 28:13; Num 28:21; Num 28:29; Num 29:4; Num 29:10; Num 29:15
Liquid:
- 1. Bath, about eight gallons and a half
1Ki 7:26; 1Ki 7:38; 2Ch 2:10; 2Ch 4:5; Ezr 7:22; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:11; Eze 45:14; Luk 16:6
- 2. Firkin, nearly nine gallons
Joh 2:6
- 3. Hin, about a gallon and a half
Exo 29:40; Exo 30:24; Lev 19:36; Lev 23:13; Num 15:10; Num 28:5; Num 28:7; Num 28:14; Eze 4:11; Eze 45:24; Eze 46:5; Eze 46:7; Eze 46:11; Eze 46:14
- 4. Log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin
Lev 14:10; Lev 14:12; Lev 14:15; Lev 14:21; Lev 14:24
- 5. See Weights
Linear:
- 1. Finger
Jer 52:21
- 2. Handbreadth
Exo 25:25; Exo 37:12; 1Ki 7:26; 2Ch 4:5; Psa 39:5; Eze 40:5; Eze 40:43; Eze 43:13
- 3. Span
Exo 28:16; 1Sa 17:4; Isa 40:12; Isa 48:13; Lam 2:20; Eze 43:13
- 4. Cubit, the length of the forearm
Cubit
- 5. Reed, probably six cubits
Eze 40:5
- 6. Fathom
Act 27:28
- 7. Pace
2Sa 6:13
- 8. Furlong
Luk 24:13
- 9. Mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile
Mat 5:41
- 10. Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces
Act 1:12
Must be just
- General references
Lev 19:36; Deu 25:16; Pro 11:1; Pro 16:11; Pro 20:10; Pro 20:23; Hos 12:9; Mic 6:12
Dishonesty; Integrity
