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Strong's #374: 'eyphah (pronounced ay-faw')

or (shortened) ephah {ay-faw'}; of Egyptian derivation; an ephah or measure for grain; hence, a measure in general:-- ephah, (divers) measure(-s).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'êyphâh / 'êphâh

1) ephah

1a) a dry measure of quantity, equal to 3 seahs, 10 omers; the same as the liquid measure bath; (about 9 imperial gallons (40 liters), rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount)

1b) the receptacle for measuring or holding that amount

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: of Egyptian derivation



Usage:

This word is used 40 times:

Exodus 16:36: "Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah."
Leviticus 5:11: "shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put"
Leviticus 6:20: "in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half"
Leviticus 19:36: "weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I"
Numbers 5:15: "her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no"
Numbers 28:5: "And a tenth part of an ephah for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten"
Deuteronomy 25:14: "Thou shalt not have divers measures, a great and a small."
Deuteronomy 25:14: "Thou shalt not have divers measures, divers measures, a great and a small."
Deuteronomy 25:15: "weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened"
Judges 6:19: "a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put"
Ruth 2:17: "that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley."
1 Samuel 1:24: "her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought"
1 Samuel 17:17: "Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten"
Proverbs 20:10: "Divers weights, and divers measures, of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
Proverbs 20:10: "Divers weights, and divers measures, and divers measures, of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
Isaiah 5:10: "and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah."
Ezekiel 45:10: "just and a just ephah, and a just bath."
Ezekiel 45:11: " The ephah and the bath of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part"
Ezekiel 45:11: "may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be"
Ezekiel 45:13: "ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part"
Ezekiel 45:13: "of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of a homer of barley:"
Ezekiel 45:24: "And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil"
Ezekiel 45:24: "a meat offering for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah."
Ezekiel 45:24: "for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah."
Ezekiel 46:5: "And the meat offering shall be an ephah and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and a hin"
Ezekiel 46:5: "as he shall be able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah."
Ezekiel 46:7: "And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as"
Ezekiel 46:7: "a meat offering, for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand"
Ezekiel 46:7: "shall attain unto, and a hin of oil to an ephah."
Ezekiel 46:11: "and in the solemnities shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs"
Ezekiel 46:11: "shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give,"
Ezekiel 46:11: "as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah."
Ezekiel 46:14: "it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil,"
Amos 8:5: "and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying"
Micah 6:10: "in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure that is abominable?"
Zechariah 5:6: "And he said, This is an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This is their resemblance"
Zechariah 5:7: "woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah."
Zechariah 5:8: "And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead"
Zechariah 5:9: "of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven."
Zechariah 5:10: "do these bear the ephah?"









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