MEASURE
- (The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research, and are as correct as is possible at this time):
- DRY:
- A bushel, about a peck: Matt.5.15, Mark.4.21, Luke.11.33
- A cab, or kab, about two quarts: 2Kgs.6.25
- A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels: 1Kgs.4.22, 1Kgs.5.11, 2Chr.2.10, 2Chr.27.5, Ezra.7.22
- 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, Lev.6.20, Lev.19.36, Num.5.15, Num.28.5, Judg.6.19, Ruth.2.17, 1Sam.1.24, 1Sam.17.17, Isa.5.10, Ezek.45.10, Ezek.45.11, Ezek.45.13, Ezek.45.24, Ezek.46.5, Ezek.46.7, Ezek.46.11, Ezek.46.14, Amos.8.5, Zech.5.6-Zech.5.10
- A half-homer, about five and a half bushels: Hos.3.2
- A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs: Lev.27.16, Num.11.32, Isa.5.10, Ezek.45.11-Ezek.45.14, Hos.3.2
- An omer, about one bushel: Exod.16.16, Exod.16.18
- A seah, about a peck and a half: Gen.18.6, 1Sam.25.18, 1Kgs.18.32, 2Kgs.7.1, 2Kgs.7.16, 2Kgs.7.18
- A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah: Exod.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.28.12, Num.28.13, Num.28.20, Num.28.21, Num.28.29, Num.29.3, Num.29.4, Num.29.9, Num.29.10, Num.29.14, Num.29.15
- A bath, about eight gallons and a half: 1Kgs.7.26, 1Kgs.7.38, 2Chr.2.10, 2Chr.4.5, Ezra.7.22, Isa.5.10, Ezek.45.10, Ezek.45.11, Ezek.45.14, Luke.16.6
- A firkin, nearly nine gallons: John.2.6
- A hin, about a gallon and a half: Exod.29.40, Exod.30.24, Lev.19.36, Lev.23.13, Num.15.4-Num.15.10, Num.28.5, Num.28.7, Num.28.14, Ezek.4.11
- A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin: Lev.14.10, Lev.14.12, Lev.14.15, Lev.14.21, Lev.14.24
- A finger: Jer.52.21
- A handbreadth: Exod.25.25, Exod.37.12, 1Kgs.7.26, 2Chr.4.5, Ps.39.5, Ezek.40.5, Ezek.40.43, Ezek.43.13
- A span: Exod.28.16, 1Sam.17.4, Isa.40.12, Isa.48.13, Lam.2.20, Ezek.43.13
- A cubit, the length of a man's forearm:
- A reed, probably six cubits: Ezek.40.5
- A fathom: Acts.27.28
- A pace: 2Sam.6.13
- A furlong: Luke.24.13
- A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile: Matt.5.41