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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 ]
One cup of cooked hulled barley provides 6 grams of fiber (about one-fifth of the daily recommendation), while cooked pearled barley contains 3 grams of fiber per cup.
The Israelite system of measuring area was fairly informal; the biblical text merely measures areas by describing how much land could be sown with a certain volume measure of seed, for example the amount of land able to be sown with 2 seahs of barley. [21]
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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]
Homer describes the preparation of a wine and cheese drink: taking "Pramnian wine she grated goat's milk cheese into it with a bronze grater [and] threw in a handful of white barley meal." [ 106 ] (Book 11 of the Iliad )
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In general however, length, volume, and mass are derived from a theoretical standard cube, called 'gur (also spelled kor in some literature)', filled with barley, wheat, water, or oil. However, because of the different specific gravities of these substances combined with dual numerical bases ( sexagesimal or decimal ), multiple sizes of the gur ...