Measure
32 references
- (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 Matt. 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 11:33
- 2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts 2 Kgs. 6:25
- 3. A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels 1 Kgs. 4:22; 5:11; 2 Chr. 2:10; 27:5; Ezra 7:22
- 4. An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, containing about a bushel and a half Exod. 16:36; Lev. 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Num. 5:15; 28:5; Judg. 6:19; Ruth 2:17; 1 Sam. 1:24; 17:17; Isa. 5:10; Ezek. 45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; Amos 8:5; Zech. 5:6-10
- 5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushels Hos. 3:2
- 6. A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs Lev. 27:16; Num. 11:32; Isa. 5:10; Ezek. 45:11-14; Hos. 3:2
- 7. An omer, about one bushel Exod. 16:16,18
- 8. A seah, about a peck and a half Gen. 18:6; 1 Sam. 25:18; 1 Kgs. 18:32; 2 Kgs. 7:1,16,18
- 9. A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah Exod. 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
- LIQUID
- 1. A bath, about eight gallons and a half 1 Kgs. 7:26,38; 2 Chr. 2:10; 4:5; Ezra 7:22; Isa. 5:10; Ezek. 45:10,11,14; Luke 16:6
- 2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons John 2:6
- 3. A hin, about a gallon and a half Exod. 29:40; 30:24; Lev. 19:36; 23:13; Num. 15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; Ezek. 4:11
- 4. A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin Lev. 14:10,12,15,21,24
- See Weights
- LINEAR
- 1. A finger Jer. 52:21
- 2. A handbreadth Exod. 25:25; 37:12; 1 Kgs. 7:26; 2 Chr. 4:5; Ps. 39:5; Ezek. 40:5,43; 43:13
- 3. A span Exod. 28:16; 1 Sam. 17:4; Isa. 40:12; 48:13; Lam. 2:20; Ezek. 43:13
- 4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
- See Cubit
- 5. A reed, probably six cubits Ezek. 40:5
- 6. A fathom Acts 27:28
- 7. A pace 2 Sam. 6:13
- 8. A furlong Luke 24:13
- 9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile Matt. 5:41
- 10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces Acts 1:12
- MUST BE JUST Lev. 19:35,36; Deut. 25:13-16; Prov. 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; Hos. 12:7-9; Mic. 6:10-12
- See Dishonesty
- See Integrity
From Nave's Topical Bible (1896). Public domain.