Nave's Topical Bible: Orville J. Nave, A.M., D.D., LL.D.

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; Mk. 4:21; Lk. 11:33
  2. A cab, or kab, about two quarts 2 Ki. 6:25
  3. A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels 1 Ki. 4:22, 5:11; 2 Chr. 2:10, 27:5; Ezra 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; Lev. 5:11, 6:20, 19:36; Num. 5:15, 28:5; Judg. 6:19; Ruth 2:17; 1 Sam. 1:24, 17:17; Isa. 5:10; Ezek. 45:10, 11, 13, 24, 46:5, 7, 11, 14; Amos 8:5; Zech. 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; Ezek. 45:11-14; Hos. 3:2
  7. An omer, about one bushel Ex. 16:16, 18
  8. A seah, about a peck and a half Gen. 18:6; 1 Sam. 25:18; 1 Ki. 18:32; 2 Ki. 7:1, 16, 18
  9. A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an ephah Ex. 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 1 Ki. 7:26, 38; 2 Chr. 2:10, 4:5; Ezra 7:22; Isa. 5:10; Ezek. 45:10, 11, 14; Lk. 16:6
  2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons Jn. 2:6
  3. A hin, about a gallon and a half Ex. 29:40, 30:24; Lev. 19:36, 23:13; Num. 15:4-10, 28:5, 7, 14; Ezek. 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 Ex. 25:25, 37:12; 1 Ki. 7:26; 2 Chr. 4:5; Ps. 39:5; Ezek. 40:5, 43, 43:13
  3. A span Ex. 28:16; 1 Sam. 17:4; Isa. 40:12, 48:13; Lam. 2:20; Ezek. 43:13
  4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
     • See CUBIT
  5. A reed, probably six cubits Ezek. 40:5
  6. A fathom Acts 27:28
  7. A pace 2 Sam. 6:13
  8. A furlong Lk. 24:13
  9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile Mt. 5:41
  10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces Acts 1:12
• MUST BE JUST Lev. 19:35, 36; Dt. 25:13-16; Pr. 11:1, 16:11, 20:10, 23; Hos. 12:7-9; Mic. 6:10-12
  • See DISHONESTY
  • See INTEGRITY