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

  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

  5. 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

  5. See CUBIT

  6. A reed, probably six cubits Eze 40:5

  7. A fathom Ac 27:28

  8. A pace 2Sa 6:13

  9. A furlong Lu 24:13

  10. 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