Lexicon seah: seah (a measure of flour or grain) Original Word: סְאָה־Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: seah Phonetic Spelling: (seh-aw') Short Definition: measures NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definitionseah (a measure of flour or grain) NASB Translationmeasure (3), measures (6).
Brown-Driver-Briggs סְאָה noun feminine (see below) se'ah, a measure of flour, grain, etc. (√ unknown; perhaps foreign word; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic סְאָה, סָאתָא,  ,  ,  (Greek σάτον, Lewy Fremdwörter 116 f)); — absolute סְאָהֿ 2 Kings 7:1,16, וּסֳאָהֿ 2 Kings 7:18 (Baer Ginsb compare Ges § 10h); dual סָאתַיִם 1 Kings 18:32 3t.; plural סְאִים Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 25:18; — always with appositive of thing measured, Genesis 18:6 (J), 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 7:1 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 7:16 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 7:18 (twice in verse) (where apparently masculine, perhaps after analogy of other measures of capacity, הִין, תֹמֶר, כֹּר, etc., Albr ZAW xvi (1896), 95); — סַאסְּאָה Isaiah 27:8 see סאסא. — On size of se'ah = 1/3 ephah, = 12.148 litres (= 10.696 qts.), see Now Archaeology i. 203 Benz Archaeology 183. Strong's measure From an unused root meaning to define; a seah, or certain measure (as determinative) for grain -- measure. |
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