Lexicon saton: seah, a (Heb.) measure (equiv. to about one and a half pecks) Original Word: σάτον, ου, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: saton Phonetic Spelling: (sat'-on) Short Definition: nearly three English gallons Definition: a large measure equal to nearly three English gallons. HELPS word-Studies 4568 sáton – "a large measure equivalent to nearly three English gallons" (Souter); the measure for grain, "about a peck and a half or somewhat less than one-half bushel (a bushel consists of four pecks) or approximately twelve liters in the metric system" (L & N, 1, 81.23). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof Aramaic origin, cf. seahDefinitionseah, a (Heb.) measure (equiv. to about one and a half pecks) NASB Translationpecks (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4568: σάτονσάτον (Hebrew כְאָה, Chaldean כָאתָא, Syriac )t)S [ ]), σατου, τό, a kind of dry measure, a modius and a half (equivalent to about a peck and a half (cf. μόδιος)) (Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 5 ἰσχύει δέ τό σάτον μόδιον, καί ἥμισυ ἰταλικον; cf. Genesis 18:6 (see Aq. and Symm.); Judges 6:19): Matthew 13:33; Luke 13:21, (in both examples A. V. 'three measures of meal' i. e. the common quantity for 'a baking' (cf. Genesis 18:6; Judges 6:19; 1 Samuel 1:24)).
Strong's measure. Of Hebrew origin (c'ah); a certain measure for things dry -- measure. see HEBREW c'ah |
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