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# אֵיפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H374

**ephah** — used 40 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

ephah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/374/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיפָה: n.f. ephah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/374/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ephah (etym. dub., 𝔊 οιφι etc., cf. Copt. ôipi, Thes LagOr. ii. 2 & cit.)—א׳ Nu 5:15 +; אֵפָה Ex 16:36 +; cstr. אֵיפַת Lv 19:36 +;—ephah, a grain-measure. a certain quantity of wheat, barley, etc. = ten omers (עֹמֶר) Ex 16:36 (cf. in measure of offerings Lv 5:11; 6:13 Nu 5:15; 28:5, all עֲשִׂירִית הָא׳; = 1/10 chomer (חֹמֶר) Ez 45:11 (= bath, בַּת, liqu. meas. q.v.) cf. Is 5:10; chiefly of offerings, v. supr. & 1 S 1:24 Ez 45:13(×2), 24(×3); 46:5(×2), 7(×3), 11(×3), 14; cf. Ju 6:19, but also of food 1 S 17:17 cf. Ru 2:17 & Is 5:10 supr. receptacle or measure, holding an ephah, in proph. vision Zc 5:6, 7, 8, 9, 10; just measure אֵיפַת־צֶדֶק Lv 19:36 (‖ מֹאזְנֵי־צ׳, אַבְנֵי־צ׳, הִין צ׳) cf. Ez 45:10, 11; אֵיפָה שְׁלֵמָה וָצ׳ Dt 25:15 (‖ אֶבֶן שׁ׳ וָצ׳); of unjust measure אֵיפָה וְאֵיפָה Dt 25:14 Pr 20:10; הַקְטִין א׳ Am 8:5; אֵיפַת רָזוֹן Mi 6:10. (On the actual size of ephah, cf. בַּת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ephah (15); an ephah (14); a measure (5).

## In the verses

[Exodus 16:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.36/#tree)

וְהָעֹ֕מֶר עֲשִׂרִ֥ית הָאֵיפָ֖ה הֽוּא׃פ

*Word for word:* and the omer \[is\].the.tenth.\[part\] of the.ephah it

*JPS 1917:* Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

[Proverbs 20:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.10/#tree)

אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְאֵיפָ֑ה תּוֹעֲבַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* a.weight and a.weight a.measure and a.measure \[are\].(the).abomination of.Yahweh also both of.them

*JPS 1917:* Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/374.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/374/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).