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The omer, which the Torah mentions as being equal to one-tenth of an ephah, [30] is equivalent to the capacity of 43.2 eggs, or what is also known as one-tenth of three seahs. [31] In dry weight, the omer weighed between 1.560 kg to 1.770 kg, being the quantity of flour required to separate therefrom the dough offering. [32]
Orobus lens(L.) Stokes (1812) The lentil (Vicia lens or Lens culinaris) is an edible legume. It is an annual plant known for its lens -shaped seeds. It is about 40 cm (16 in) tall, and the seeds grow in pods, usually with two seeds in each. Lentils are used around the world for culinary purposes.
Omer (unit) Sheaves of wheat: one sheaf is approximately one omer in dry volume. The omer (Hebrew: עֹ֫מֶר ‘ōmer) is an ancient Israelite unit of dry measure used in the era of the Temple in Jerusalem and also known as an isaron. [1] It is used in the Bible as an ancient unit of volume for grains and dry commodities, and the Torah ...
A full bushel is represented by a basket in the lower right. A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agricultural products, such as wheat.
In US customary units, most units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name, but different values: the dry hogshead, dry barrel, dry gallon, dry quart, dry pint, etc. The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value ...
Ancient Roman dry measures Roman unit Equal to Metric Imperial US dry ligula 1 ⁄ 288 congius 11.4 ml 0.401 fl oz 0.0207 pt cyathus 1 ⁄ 72 congius 45 ml 1.58 fl oz 0.082 pt acetabulum 1 ⁄ 48 congius 68 ml 2.39 fl oz 0.124 pt quartarius 1 ⁄ 24 congius 136 ml 4.79 fl oz 0.247 pt hemina or cotyla 1 ⁄ 12 congius 273 ml 9.61 fl oz 0.496 pt ...
English-speaking countries also used a system of units of fluid measure, or in modern terminology volume units, based on the apothecaries' system. Originally, the terms and symbols used to describe the volume measurements of liquids were the same as or similar to those used to describe weight measurements of solids [33] (for example, the pound by weight and the fluid pint were both referred to ...
The pao is a unit of dry measure (mass) which is used in South Asia. The name may come from the Punjabi ਪਾਓ páo, which was a traditional charge of one quarter of a seer per every maund of grain that was weighed, converted into a tax by Sawan Mal. [1] Turner also cites a Sindhi word pāu (پاءُ) meaning a quarter of a seer. [2][3]