Strong H1324בַּת

bath

Transliteration
bath
Pronunciation
bath
Morphology
Hebrew Noun

Definition

Probably from the same as H1327; a bath or Hebrew measure (as a means of division) of liquids: - bath.

Detailed definition

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)

In the Bible

Strong H1324 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • bath8

First verses

  1. 1 Kings 7:26
    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.
  2. 1 Kings 7:38
    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.
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:10
    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.
  4. 2 Chronicles 4:5
    And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
  5. Isaiah 5:10
    Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
  6. Ezekiel 45:10
    Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
  7. Ezekiel 45:11
    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.
  8. Ezekiel 45:14
    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:
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