בַּת
bat
bath, a unit of liquid measure, equal to dry measure ephah (about 9 imperial gallons or 40 litres, rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount)
Aramaic equivalent: bat (בַּת "bath" H1325)
Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)
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Concordance 8 verses
- 1 Kings 7:26 בַּ֖ת
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
- 1 Kings 7:38 בַּ֜ת
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10 בַּתִּים֙בַּתִּ֖ים
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil.”
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 בַּתִּ֔ים
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
- Isaiah 5:10 בַּ֣ת
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
- Ezekiel 45:10 וּבַת־
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Ezekiel 45:11 וְהַבַּ֗תהַבָּ֑ת
The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.
- Ezekiel 45:14 הַבַּ֣תהַבַּת֙הַבַּתִּ֖יםהַבַּתִּ֖ים
The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
