A unit of liquid measure in ancient times, roughly equal to 20 to 40 liters.
About Bath
A unit of liquid measure in the Old Testament (Ezekiel 45:10–11). It is equal to about six gallons or 23 liters.
See Weights and Measures.
Key References
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.
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.
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
All Scripture References (8)
1 Kings (2)
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.
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)
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.
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 (1)
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Ezekiel (3)
You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
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.
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).