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# כֹּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3734

**kōr** — used 8 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

kōr [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3734/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֹּר: kōr [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3734/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] kōr, a measure (usually dry), = חֹמֶר (Ez 45:14 cf. v 11) (NH כּוֹר, Aramaic כּוֹרָא, ܟܽܘܪܳܐ; hence, as loan-words, Gk. κόρος, Arabic كُرٌّ Frä 207; √ dub.; כרה, LagOr. ii. 30, cf. Id. BN 40, 156; כרר, Nö ZMG 1886, xl. 734; DlProl. 113 comp. Assyrian kâru, and der. from כור (but see now kâru DlHWB 349));—כ׳ סֹלֶת 1 K 5:2; כ׳ קָ֑מַח v 2; of חִטִּים v 25 a; pl. כֹּרִים of ח׳ and שְׂעֹרִים 2 Ch 2:9(×2); 27:5; הַכֹּר as liquid measure (of oil) Ez 45:14. See further BenzArch. 183 ff. NowArch. i. 203, and, on capacity, v. iii. חֹמֶר p. 330 f. supr.; in 1 K 5:25b read בַּת שֶׁמֶן for MT כֹּר שׁ׳ (cf. 𝔊 and 2 Ch 2:9).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: cor\[s\] (4); cors (3); cor (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 5:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.2/#tree)

וַיְהִ֥י לֶֽחֶם־שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה לְי֣וֹם אֶחָ֑ד שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים כֹּר֙ סֹ֔לֶת וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים כֹּ֖ר קָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* and it.was the.food of.Solomon for a.day one thirty cor\[s\] of.fine.flour and sixty cor\[s\] of.flour

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal;

[Ezekiel 45:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.45.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.45.14/#tree)

וְחֹ֨ק הַשֶּׁ֜מֶן הַבַּ֣ת הַשֶּׁ֗מֶן מַעְשַׂ֤ר הַבַּת֙ מִן־הַכֹּ֔ר עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת הַבַּתִּ֖ים חֹ֑מֶר כִּֽי־עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת הַבַּתִּ֖ים חֹֽמֶר׃

*Word for word:* and the.prescribed.portion of the.oil the bath the oil \[will.be\].the.tenth.part of the.bath from the cor the.ten the baths \[are\].a.homer (dm) ten the baths \[are\].a.homer

*JPS 1917:* and the set portion of oil, the bath of oil, shall be the tithe of the bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; for ten baths are a homer;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3734.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3734/): 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).