Cab

An Hebrew measure, containing about three pints in wine measure, and two pints of corn measure. This serves to explain the miseries of the famine in Samaria, when the fourth part of a cab of doves dung sold for five pieces of silver. (2 Kings, vi. 25)

or KAB, a Hebrew measure, containing three pints one third of our wine measure, or two pints five sixths of our corn measure.

Cab, a measure mentioned in 2Ki 6:25. The Rabbins make it the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah. In that case a cab contained 3 ^1/3 pints of our wine measure, or 2 ⁵/6 pints of our corn measure.

A Hebrew measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah. A cab contained three pints and one third, of our wine measure, or two pints and five sixths, of our corn measure, 2Ki 6:25 .\par

Cab. See Measures.

(קִב, kab, a hollow vessel; Sept. κάβος), a measure for things dry, mentioned in 2Ki 6:25. The rabbins make it the sixth part of a seah (q.v.) or satum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah. This would be nearly two quarts English measure. SEE MEASURE.

Cab. 2Ki 6:25. See Measures.

See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

CAB.—See Weights and Measures.

See KAB.