1 Kings 4:22
22Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors ▼▼A cor was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
of fine flour and sixty cors of meal, Isaiah 5:10
10 bFor ten acres ▼▼Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
of vineyard shall yield but one bath,and a dhomer of seed shall yield but an ephah.” ▼
▼A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Ezekiel 45:11
11The ephah and the bath shall be fof the same measure, gthe bath containing one tenth of a homer, ▼▼A homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters
and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure. Hosea 3:2
2So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a ihomer and a lethech ▼▼A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; a lethech was about 3 bushels or 110 liters
of barley.
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