Topic
Bath
8 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 1 Kings 7:26Easton · ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
- 1 Kings 7:38Easton · ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
¶ Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
- Isaiah 5:10Easton · ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
- Ezekiel 45:10Easton · ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Ezekiel 45:14Easton · ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:
- Ezra 7:22ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
- Ezekiel 45:11ISBE · Nave A Hebrew measure for liquids containing about eight gallons, three quarts
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10ISBE
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
A Hebrew liquid measure, the tenth part of an homer (1 Kings 7:26, 38; Ezek. 45:10, 14). It contained 8 gallons 3 quarts of our measure. “Ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath” (Isa. 5:10) denotes great unproductiveness.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 0 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
(bath): A liquid measure equal to about 9 gallons, English measure. It seems to have been regarded as a standard for liquid measures (Eze 45:10), as in the case of the molten sea and the lavers in Solomon's temple (1Ki 7:26,38), and for measuring oil and wine (2Ch 2:10; Ezr 7:22; Isa 5:10; Eze 45:14). Its relation to the homer is given in Eze 45:11,14.
See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.