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; 5:11; 2Ch 2:10; 27:5; Ezr 7:22.
4. Ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half,
Exd 16:36; Lev 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Num 5:15; 28:5; Jdg 6:19; Rth 2:17; 1Sa 1:24; 17:17; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:10, 11, 13, 24; 46:5, 7, 11, 14; Amo 8:5; Zec 5:6-10
5. Half-homer, about five and a half bushels,
Hsa 3:2.
6. Homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs,
Lev 27:16; Num 11:32; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:11-14; Hsa 3:2.
7. Omer, about one bushel,
Exd 16:16, 18.
8. Seah, about a peck and a half,
Gen 18:6; 1Sa 25:18; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 7:1, 16, 18.
9. Tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah,
Exd 29:40; Lev 14:10, 21; 23:13, 17; 24:5; Num 15:4, 6, 9; 28:9, 12, 13, 20, 21, 29; 29:3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15.
Measure: Liquid
1. Bath, about eight gallons and a half,
1Ki 7:26, 38; 2Ch 2:10; 4:5; Ezr 7:22; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:10, 11, 14; Luk 16:6.
2. Firkin, nearly nine gallons,
Jhn 2:6.
3. Hin, about a gallon and a half,
Exd 29:40; 30:24; Lev 19:36; 23:13; Num 15:4-10; 28:5, 7, 14; Eze 4:11.
4. Log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin,
Lev 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 24.
See WEIGHTS
Measure: Linear
1. Finger,
Jer 52:21.
2. Handbreadth,
Exd 25:25; 37:12; 1Ki 7:26; 2Ch 4:5; Psa 39:5; Eze 40:5, 43; 43:13.
3. Span,
Exd 28:16; 1Sa 17:4; Isa 40:12; 48:13; Lam 2:20; Eze 43:13.
4. Cubit, the length of a man's forearm,
See 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.