Kor כֹּר
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| כֹּר | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | kor |
| Strong's number | H3734 (H3734A, H3734B) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | kor |
| Occurrences | 9 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Kings (2) |
Kor (Hebrew כֹּר, Strong's H3734) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “kor”. It occurs 9 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
H3734A: kor
1) kor, a measure (usually dry)
1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths
1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)
1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)
Aramaic equivalent: kor (כּוֹר "kor" H3734B)
1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths
1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)
1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)
Aramaic equivalent: kor (כּוֹר "kor" H3734B)
H3734B: kor
1) kor, a measure (usually dry)
1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths
1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)
1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)
1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths
1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)
1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | measures (8), cor (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | cors (7), each cor (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Kor, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 4:22And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Kings 5:11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 2:10And, 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.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 27:5He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.Jotham waged war against the king of the Ammonites and defeated them, and that year they gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand cors of barley. They paid him the same in the second and third years.
Ezra
- Ezra 7:22Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 45:14Concerning 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: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).
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).