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title: אֵיפָה — ephah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֵיפָה (374), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 40 times: ephah. BDB 1906: n.f. ephah. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֵיפָה

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«אֵיפָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **ephah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 40 times · **Key:** 374 · **BDB:** אֵיפָה

### Glosses

ephah (15); an.ephah (14); a.measure (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

ephah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/374/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. ephah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/374/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. ephah (etym. dub., 𝔊 οιφι etc., cf. Copt. ôipi, Thes LagOr. ii. 2 \& cit.)—א׳ Nu 5:15 +; אֵפָה Ex 16:36 +; cstr. אֵיפַת Lv 19:36 +;—ephah, a grain-measure. a certain quantity of wheat, barley, etc. = ten omers (עֹמֶר) Ex 16:36 (cf. in measure of offerings Lv 5:11; 6:13 Nu 5:15; 28:5, all עֲשִׂירִית הָא׳; = 1/10 chomer (חֹמֶר) Ez 45:11 (= bath, בַּת, liqu. meas. q.v.) cf. Is 5:10; chiefly of offerings, v. supr. \& 1 S 1:24 Ez 45:13(×2), 24(×3); 46:5(×2), 7(×3), 11(×3), 14; cf. Ju 6:19, but also of food 1 S 17:17 cf. Ru 2:17 \& Is 5:10 supr. receptacle or measure, holding an ephah, in proph. vision Zc 5:6, 7, 8, 9, 10; just measure אֵיפַת־צֶדֶק Lv 19:36 (‖ מֹאזְנֵי־צ׳, אַבְנֵי־צ׳, הִין צ׳) cf. Ez 45:10, 11; אֵיפָה שְׁלֵמָה וָצ׳ Dt 25:15 (‖ אֶבֶן שׁ׳ וָצ׳); of unjust measure אֵיפָה וְאֵיפָה Dt 25:14 Pr 20:10; הַקְטִין א׳ Am 8:5; אֵיפַת רָזוֹן Mi 6:10. (On the actual size of ephah, cf. בַּת).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֵיפָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/374/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 16:36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.16.36/)

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וְהָעֹ֕מֶר עֲשִׂרִ֥ית הָאֵיפָ֖ה הֽוּא׃פ

*Word for word:* and the omer \[is\].the.tenth.\[part\] of the.ephah it

*JPS 1917:* Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

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[Proverbs 20:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.20.10/)

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אֶ֣בֶן וָ֭אֶבֶן אֵיפָ֣ה וְאֵיפָ֑ה תּוֹעֲבַ֥ת יְ֝הוָ֗ה גַּם־שְׁנֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* a.weight and a.weight a.measure and a.measure \[are\].(the).abomination of.Yahweh also both of.them

*JPS 1917:* Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.

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