Lexicon lethek: a dry measure Original Word: לֶ֫תֶךPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: lethek Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-thek) Short Definition: half NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitiona dry measure NASB Translationhalf (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs לֶ֫תֶךְ noun [masculine] a barley-measure (Late Hebrew id., a corn-measure); only in שְׂעֹרִים ׳חֹמֶרשְֿׂעֹרִים וְל Hosea 3:2; according to ᵑ9 = 1/2 כֹּר = 1/2 חֹמֶר (q. v.), compare Mishna (Levy NHWB ii. 531), but this tradition is uncertain (compare Now Archaeology i. 203); ᵐ5 νέβελ οἴνου, for ׳שׂ ׳ל. Strong's half homer From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a measure for things dry -- half homer. |
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