Lexicon modios: modius, a dry measure of one peck Original Word: μόδιος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: modios Phonetic Spelling: (mod'-ee-os) Short Definition: a dry measure, nearly two English gallons Definition: a dry measure, nearly two English gallons. HELPS word-Studies 3426 módios – a container for dry goods holding up to eight liters (roughly two gallons); a dry measure (the chief grain unit) equivalent to one peck (8.81L). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Latin origin Definitionmodius, a dry measure of one peck NASB Translationbasket (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3426: μόδιοςμόδιος, μοδιου, ὁ, the Latin modius, a dry measure holding 16 sextarii (or one sixth of the Attic medimnus; commentary Nepos, Attic 2 (i. e. about a peck, A. V. bushel; cf. BB. DD. under the phrase, Weights and Measures)): Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 11:33.
Strong's bushel. Of Latin origin; a modius, i.e. Certain measure for things dry (the quantity or the utensil) -- bushel. |
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