Homer

A unit of dry measurement in the Bible, equal to about 220 liters or 6 bushels.

About Homer

Dry measure of capacity estimated to be anywhere from four to six and a half bushels. See Weights and Measures.

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Form, use in ancient daily life, and how translators render the term.

Key References

Leviticus 27:16

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

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.

Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.

All Scripture References (7)

Leviticus (1)
Leviticus 27:16

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Numbers (1)
Numbers 11:32

All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.

Isaiah (1)
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 (3)
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 45:13

This is the contribution you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah from each homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah from each homer of barley.

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).

Hosea (1)
Hosea 3:2

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.