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title: לֶתֶךְ — a barley-measure · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לֶתֶךְ (3963), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: a barley-measure. BDB 1906: barley-measure. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לֶתֶךְ

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«לֶתֶךְ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **a barley-measure** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3963 · **BDB:** לֶ֫תֶךְ

### Glosses

a.lethech (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

a barley-measure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3963/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

barley-measure [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3963/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] a barley-measure (NH id., a corn-measure); only in חֹמֶר־שְׂעֹרִים וְל׳ שְׂעֹרִים Ho 3:2; according to 𝔙 = 1/2 כֹּר = 1/2 חֹמֶר (q.v.), cf. Mish. (LevyNHWB ii. 531), but this tradition is uncertain (cf. NowArch. i. 203); 𝔊 νέβελ οἴνου, for ל׳ שׂ׳.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לֶתֶךְ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3963/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Hosea 3:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.3.2/)

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וָאֶכְּרֶ֣הָ לִּ֔י בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר כָּ֑סֶף וְחֹ֥מֶר שְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְלֵ֥תֶךְ שְׂעֹרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and I bought.her for myself for fif- teen silver and a.homer of.barley(s) and a.lethech of.barley(s)

*JPS 1917:* So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

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