Weights
Unit | Weight | Equivalents |
Talent | about 75 pounds (34 kilograms) for a common talent, and about 150 pounds for a royal talent | 60 minas; 3000 shekels |
Mina | about 1.25 pounds (0.6 kilogram) | 50 shekels |
Shekel | about .4 ounce (11.4 grams) for a common shekel | 2 bekas; 20 gerahs |
Pim | 1/3 ounce (7.6 grams) | 2/3 shekel |
Beka | .2 ounce (5.7 grams) | 1/2 shekel; 10 gerahs |
Gerah | .02-ounce (.57 grams) | 1/20 shekel |
Litra | 12 ounces |
Measures of Length
Unit | Weight | Equivalents |
Day’s journey | about 20 miles | |
Roman mile | 4,854 feet | 8 stadia |
Sabbath day’s journey | 3,637 feet | 6 stadia |
Stadion | 606 feet | 1/8 Roman mile |
Rod | 9 feet (10.5 feet in Ezekiel) | 3 paces; 6 cubits |
Fathom | 6 feet | 4 cubits |
Pace | 3 feet | 1/3 rod; 2 cubits |
Cubit | 18 inches (0.5 meter) | 1/2 pace; 2 spans |
Span | 9 inches (23 centimeters) | 1/2 cubit; 3 handbreadths |
Handbreadth | 3 inches (8 centimeters) | 1/3 span; 4 fingers |
Finger | .75 inches | 1/4 handbreadth |
Dry Measures
Unit | Weight | Equivalents |
Homer | 6.52 bushels (220 liters) | 10 ephahs |
Kor (cor) | 6.52 bushels (220 liters) | 1 homer; 10 ephahs |
Lethech | 3.26 bushels (110 liters) | 1/2 kor; 5 ephahs |
Ephah | .65 bushel, 20.8 quarts (22 liters) | 1/10 homer |
Modius | 7.68 quarts | |
Seah | 7 quarts (7.3 liters) | 1/3 ephah |
Omer | 2.08 quarts (2 liters) | 1/10 ephah; 1 4/5 kab |
Kab (cab) | 1.16 quarts (1 liter) | 4 logs |
Choenix | 1 quart | |
Xestes | 1 1/16 pints | |
Log | .58 pint | 1/4 kab |
Liquid Measures
Unit | Weight | Equivalents |
Kor (Cor) | 60 gallons | 10 baths |
Metretes | 10.2 gallons | |
Bath | 6 gallons (22 liters) | 6 hins |
Hin | 1 gallon (4 liters) | 2 kabs |
Kab | 2 quarts | 4 logs |
Log | 1 pint (0.3 liter) | 1/4 kab |