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 MAT 5:15; MRK 4:21; LUK 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 EXO 16:36; LEV 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; NUM 5:15; 28:5; JDG 6:19; RUT 2:17; 1SA 1:24; 17:17; ISA 5:10; EZK 45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; AMO 8:5; ZEC 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; EZK 45:11-14; HOS 3:2
7. An omer, about one bushel EXO 16:16,18
8. A seah, about a peck and a half GEN 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 EXO 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 1KI 7:26,38; 2CH 2:10; 4:5; EZR 7:22; ISA 5:10; EZK 45:10,11,14; LUK 16:6
2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons JHN 2:6
3. A hin, about a gallon and a half EXO 29:40; 30:24; LEV 19:36; 23:13; NUM 15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; EZK 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 EXO 25:25; 37:12; 1KI 7:26; 2CH 4:5; PSA 39:5; EZK 40:5,43; 43:13
3. A span EXO 28:16; 1SA 17:4; ISA 40:12; 48:13; LAM 2:20; EZK 43:13
4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
See CUBIT
5. A reed, probably six cubits EZK 40:5
6. A fathom ACT 27:28
7. A pace 2SA 6:13
8. A furlong LUK 24:13
9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile MAT 5:41
10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces ACT 1:12
MUST BE JUST LEV 19:35,36; DEU 25:13-16; PRO 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; HOS 12:7-9; MIC 6:10-12
See DISHONESTY
See INTEGRITY
