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# לֶתֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3963

**a barley-measure** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

a barley-measure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3963/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֶ֫תֶךְ: barley-measure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3963/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a barley-measure (NH id., a corn-measure); only in חֹמֶר־שְׂעֹרִים וְל׳ שְׂעֹרִים Ho 3:2; according to 𝔙 = 1/2 כֹּר = 1/2 חֹמֶר (q.v.), cf. Mish. (LevyNHWB ii. 531), but this tradition is uncertain (cf. NowArch. i. 203); 𝔊 νέβελ οἴνου, for ל׳ שׂ׳.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a lethech (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 3:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.3.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.3.2/#tree)

וָאֶכְּרֶ֣הָ לִּ֔י בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר כָּ֑סֶף וְחֹ֥מֶר שְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְלֵ֥תֶךְ שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and I bought.her for myself for fif- teen silver and a.homer of.barley(s) and a.lethech of.barley(s)

*JPS 1917:* So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3963.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3963/): 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).