Bible dictionaries

Omer

What Bible dictionaries say about “Omer”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Omer - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A handful, one-tenth of an ephah=half a gallon dry measure (Ex. 16:22, 32, 33, 36)="tenth deal."

Omer - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

OMER

OM'INATE, v.t. [L. ominor, from omen.] To presage; to foreshow; to foretoken. [Little used.]

OM'INATE, v.i. To foretoken.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

The article in Easton + Webster 1828

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

o'-mer (`omer): A dry measure, the tenth of an ephah, equal to about 7 1/2 pints.

See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith