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Definition of Ephahs
1. ephah [n] - See also: ephah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephahs
Literary usage of Ephahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Land: Its Attractions and Riches by Charles Finch Dowsett (1892)
"The property, with a crop of 8 ephahs, including the house, fence, garden,
poultry-yard, and pond, in the city of ..."
2. The Tithe in Scripture: Being Chapters from "The Sacred Tenth" with a by Henry Lansdell (1908)
"From the foregoing it will be seen that if the standing crop amounts to 6000
ephahs, or bushels, an estimated -fa must be left in the corners, ..."
3. A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs: Derived Entirely from the Monuments by Heinrich Karl Brugsch, Henry Danby Seymour (1881)
"The number of 120 ephahs of durra appears to me in a truer proportion for
determining the missing number, than it would be to the number of 52 goats, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"11) makes it the equivalent of ten baths and also of ten ephahs, a conclusion
from which is that the ... The Basis ephahs = 100 omers have this appear- ..."
5. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1854)
"We have thus fifteen pieces of silver, and also fifteen ephahs; and the supposition
is very probable that at that time an ephah of barley cost a shekel,— ..."
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