Nave’s Topical Bible

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Measure in Easton’s Bible DictionaryWhat the word means and where it comes from
(The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is possible at this time)
DRY
1. A bushel, about a peck Mt 5:15; Mr 4:21; Lu 11:33
2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts 2Ki 6:25
3. A 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. An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half Ex 16:36; Le 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Nu 5:15; 28:5; Jud 6:19; Ru 2:17; 1Sa 1:24; 17:17; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; Am 8:5; Zec 5:6-10
5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushels Ho 3:2
6. A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs Le 27:16; Nu 11:32; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:11-14; Ho 3:2
7. An omer, about one bushel Ex 16:16,18
8. A seah, about a peck and a half Ge 18:6; 1Sa 25:18; 1Ki 18:32; 2Ki 7:1,16,18
9. A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah Ex 29:40; Le 14:10,21; 23:13,17; 24:5; Nu 15:4,6,9; 28:9,12,13,20,21,29; 29:3,4,9,10,14,15
LIQUID
1. A 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; Lu 16:6
2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons Joh 2:6
3. A hin, about a gallon and a half Ex 29:40; 30:24; Le 19:36; 23:13; Nu 15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; Eze 4:11
4. A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin Le 14:10,12,15,21,24
See Weights
LINEAR
1. A finger Jer 52:21
2. A handbreadth Ex 25:25; 37:12; 1Ki 7:26; 2Ch 4:5; Ps 39:5; Eze 40:5,43; 43:13
3. A span Ex 28:16; 1Sa 17:4; Isa 40:12; 48:13; La 2:20; Eze 43:13
4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
See Cubit
5. A reed, probably six cubits Eze 40:5
6. A fathom Ac 27:28
7. A pace 2Sa 6:13
8. A furlong Lu 24:13
9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile Mt 5:41
10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces Ac 1:12
MUST BE JUST Le 19:35,36; De 25:13-16; Pr 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; Ho 12:7-9; Mic 6:10-12
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