How To Use Ephah In A Sentence
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Take fine flour and bake twelve loaves of bread, using two - tenths of ephah for each loaf.
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The Bath, equal to 72 Logs, is thus the liquid equivalent of the Ephah, also equal to 72 Logs.
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So much land as would take a homer, or chomer, of barley, which contained ten ephahs,
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
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Hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6: 25; a dry measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, equal to about two English quarts.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The ephah was a dry measure, and the bath a liquid measure, containing about seven gallons, four pints, or three pecks, three pints.
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An omer was but the tenth part of an ephah (Exod.xvi. 36) and the one hundredth part of a chomer, or homer, and contained about six pints.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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That one neighbour do not cheat another in commerce (v. 10): You shall have just balances, in which to weigh both money and goods, a just ephah for dry measure of corn and flour, a just bath for the measure of liquids, wine, and oil; and the ephah and bath shall be one measure, the tenth part of a chomer, or cor, v. 11.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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A unit of capacity used by the ancient Hebrews, equal to 10 ephahs ( about 10 bushels ) or 10 baths ( about 100 gallons ).
