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A homer (Hebrew: חֹמֶר ḥōmer, plural חמרם ḥomārim; also כֹּר kōr) is a biblical unit of volume used for liquids and dry goods. One homer is equal to 10 baths , or what was also equivalent to 30 seahs ; each seah being the equivalent in volume to six kabs , and each kab equivalent in volume to 24 medium-sized eggs. [ 1 ]
The origin of Hebrew seven day week and the Sabbath, as well as the true meaning of the name, is uncertain. The earliest Biblical passages which mention it (Exodus 20:10 and 24:21; Deut. 5:14; Amos 8:5) presuppose its previous existence, and analysis of all the references to it in the canon makes it plain that its observance was neither general ...
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]
Kykeon is mentioned in Homeric texts: the Iliad describes it as consisting of Pramnian wine, barley, and grated goat's cheese. [3] In the Odyssey, Circe adds some honey and pours her magic potion into it. [4] In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the goddess refuses red wine but accepts kykeon made from water, barley, and pennyroyal. [5]
"A homer of barley, and a letech of barley" - [this refers to] 45 righteous who cause the world to be sustained ... 30 in the land of Israel and 15 here [in Babylonia ]. Abaye said: And most of them can be found in the synagogue, under the upper room [i.e. among the unhonored masses].
Krusty the Clown is informed that his Krusty Burger restaurants serve the unhealthiest fast food in the world, so he decides to add a vegetarian sandwich to the menu. It proves instantly popular throughout Springfield, but much of the town soon contracts food poisoning, which is traced to a load of tainted barley that was grown in the neighboring town of Ogdenville and used at Krusty Burger.
Translators and scholars have translated the main works attributed to Homer, the Iliad and Odyssey, from the Homeric Greek into English, since the 16th and 17th centuries. Translations are ordered chronologically by date of first publication, with first lines provided to illustrate the style of the translation.
Homer and His Guide (1874) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Today, only the Iliad and the Odyssey are associated with the name "Homer". In antiquity, a large number of other works were sometimes attributed to him, including the Homeric Hymns, the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, several epigrams, the Little Iliad, the Nostoi, the Thebaid, the Cypria, the Epigoni, the comic mini-epic ...