H1324 - בַּת (bath)

H1324 בַּת (bath) bath

Hebrew

Noun (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

bath

Strong's Definition

a bath or Hebrew measure (as a means of division) of liquids

Derivation: probably from the same as H1327 (בַּתָּה);

KJV Usage: bath.

TWOT Reference: 298a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) 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)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G5518 G943

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

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)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

בַּת bath BDB Definition: 1) bath, a unit of liquid measure, equal to dry measure ephah Part of Speech: noun masculine or feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: probably from the same as H1327 Same Word by TWOT Number: 298a Total KJV Occurrences: 14

Bible Occurrences (8)

7:26 7:38

2:10 4:5

5:10

45:10 45:11 45:14

1 Kings 7:26

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

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

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

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

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

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45:11

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

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).