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Bible Weights and Measurements. All values are approximate. Many measurements vary by era and location. Lengths. Weights. Liquid Measures. Dry Measures.
- Bath
But "bathing" in the Bible stands chiefly for ritual...
- Bath
The mention of cor for oil in 1 Kings 5:11 should be bath. It has been estimated to contain 3.8-6.524 bushels or 35.4-60.728 gallons. A half-homer of rust-colored stone used about 3,000 years ago in Jerusalem was found in an excavation. 3. Lethech. The lethech (לֵ֫תֶכְ, H4390, Ugar.
4 Ιαν 2022 · Some Bible translations have replaced the archaic words with modern equivalents or approximations. Other translations simply transliterate the Greek and Hebrew words for the measurements. Below are several terms and their approximated equivalents in both metric and imperial measurements.
A bath is one-tenth (⅒) of a homer (1 Kings 7:26; 7:38). Because the Israelites sometimes cheated by using inaccurate measurements in trade, God commanded, You shall have just balances, a just ephah and a just bath.
Bath. 1 ephah = 22 liters = 5.8 Gallons. Used in the Bible for liquids (1Kings 7:26, Isaiah 5:10). Bekah. 10 gerahs = 5.7 grams = .2 ounces. The English word "bekah" is only found in Exodus 38:26. A bekah was half of a shekel.
But "bathing" in the Bible stands chiefly for ritual acts-purification from ceremonial uncleanness, from contact with the dead, with defiled persons or things, with "holy things," i.e. things "devoted," or "under the ban," etc. (see CLEAN; UNCLEANNESS, etc.).
The basic unit of dry measure was the ephah which means basket. The homer , “ass's load,” was a dry measure, the same size as the cor , both a dry and a liquid measure. Each contained ten ephahs or baths, an equivalent liquid measure ( Ezekiel 45:10-14 ).
