Lexical Summary lethek: a dry measure Original Word: לֶתֶךְTransliteration: lethek Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-thek) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a dry measure Meaning: a measure for, things dry Strong's Concordance half homer From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a measure for things dry -- half homer. Brown-Driver-Briggs H3963. lethek לֶ֫תֶךְ noun [masculine] a barley-measure (Late Hebrew id., a corn-measure); only in וְל ׳חֹמֶרשְֿׂעֹרִים שְׂעֹרִים Hosea 3:2; according to ᵑ9 = 1/2 כֹּר = 1/2 חֹמֶר (q. v.), compare Mishna (LevyNHWB ii. 531), but this tradition is uncertain (compare NowArchaeology i. 203); ᵐ5 νέβελ οἴνου, for ׳ל ׳שׂ. |
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