Nave's Topical Index
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; Mr
4:21; Lu
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—Ex
16:36; Le
5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Nu
5:15; 28:5; Jud
6:19; Ru
2:17; 1Sa
1:24; 17:17; Isa
5:10; Eze
45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; Am
8:5; Zec
5:6-10
5. A half-homer, about five and a half bushels—Ho
3:2
6. A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs—Le
27:16; Nu
11:32; Isa
5:10; Eze
45:11-14; Ho
3:2
7. An omer, about one bushel—Ex
16:16,18
8. A seah, about a peck and a half—Ge
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—Ex
29:40; Le
14:10,21; 23:13,17; 24:5; Nu
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; Eze
45:10,11,14; Lu
16:6
2. A firkin, nearly nine gallons—Joh
2:6
3. A hin, about a gallon and a half—Ex
29:40; 30:24; Le
19:36; 23:13; Nu
15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; Eze
4:11
4. A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin—Le
14:10,12,15,21,24
LINEAR
1. A finger—Jer
52:21
2. A handbreadth—Ex
25:25; 37:12; 1Ki
7:26; 2Ch
4:5; Ps
39:5; Eze
40:5,43; 43:13
3. A span—Ex
28:16; 1Sa
17:4; Isa
40:12; 48:13; La
2:20; Eze
43:13
4. A cubit, the length of a man's forearm
5. A reed, probably six cubits—Eze
40:5
6. A fathom—Ac
27:28
7. A pace—2Sa
6:13
8. A furlong—Lu
24:13
9. A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile—Mt
5:41
10. A Sabbath day's journey, two thousand paces—Ac
1:12
MUST BE JUST—Le
19:35,36; De
25:13-16; Pr
11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; Ho
12:7-9; Mic
6:10-12