Kab

Type Object Hebrew קַב

A unit of dry measure, roughly equal to 2 liters.

About Kab

Another way of spelling cab, a unit of measurement.

See Cab.

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

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2 Kings 6:25

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.

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2 Kings 6:25

So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.