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.
Key References
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.
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.
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.
All Scripture References (7)
Leviticus (1)
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)
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)
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Ezekiel (3)
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.
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.
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)
So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a lethech of barley.