- Dry Measures
EQUIVALENT IN
ENGLISH CORN MEASURE.
pecks galls. pints.
Cab (2 Kings 6:25 = Choenix, "measure"; Revelation 6:6 0 0 2.833
Omer (Exodus 16:36) = tenth deal = 1/10 of an
ephah (Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 23:13) 0 0 5.1
Seah (plural, "measures," Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel
25:18; Matthew 13:33) 1 0 1
Ephah = 3 seahs (Ezekiel 45:11) 3 0 3
Letek = 5 ephas (half-homer," Hosea 3:2) 16 0 0
Homer, called also kor = 2 leteks (Numbers 11:32; Hosea 3:2) 32 0 0
5, Jewish Money.
ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS£ s. d.Gerah = 1/20 part of a Shekel (Exodus 30:13) 0 0 1.3687
Beech = 1/2 shekel (Exodus 38:26) 0 1 1.6875
Shekel (silver at 5s. per oz, Exodus 30:13; Isaiah 7:23;
Matthew 17:27) 0 2 3.375
Shekel of gold 1 16 6
Mane ("pound," 1 Kings 10:17) = 50 shekels 5 14 0.75
Talent of silver = 60 mannish 342 3 9
Talent of gold 5475 0 0
- Roman Money.
ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS.
£. s. d.
Mite (lepton) —Mark
12:42 — the smallest
copper coin = about .46875
of an English farthing.
Farthing (quadroons; Gr.
quadrants) —Matthew 5:26;
Mark 12:42 = 2 mites = the fourth of an as. 0 0 0 3/4
Penny (deaneries = drachma) — Matthew 22:19 0 0 7 1/2
Pound (myna) Luke 19:13, 16, 18, etc., = 100 drachmae 3 2 6