(The following modern equivalents of ancient measurements are based upon the latest research and are as correct as possible at this time)
DRY
A bushel, about a peck
Matthew 5:15; Mark 4:21; Luke 11:33
A cab, or kab, about two quarts
2 Kings 6:25
A cor, equal to one homer or ten ephahs, equal to about eleven and one-ninth bushels
1 Kings 4:22; 5:11; 2 Chronicles 2:10; 27:5; Ezra 7:22
An ephah, equal to three seah, and in liquid, to a bath, Containing about a bushel and a half
Exodus 16:36; Leviticus 5:11; 6:20; 19:36; Numbers 5:15; 28:5; Judges 6:19; Ruth 2:17; 1 Samuel 1:24; 17:17; Isaiah 5:10; Ezekiel 45:10,11,13,24; 46:5,7,11,14; Amos 8:5; Zechariah 5:6-10
A half-homer, about five and a half bushels
Hosea 3:2
A homer, about eleven bushels, equal to a cor or ten ephahs
Leviticus 27:16; Numbers 11:32; Isaiah 5:10; Ezekiel 45:11-14; Hosea 3:2
An omer, about one bushel
Exodus 16:16,18
A seah, about a peck and a half
Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 7:1,16,18
A tenth deal, about a gallon, equal to one-tenth of an Ephah
Exodus 29:40; Leviticus 14:10,21; 23:13,17; 24:5; Numbers 15:4,6,9; 28:9,12,13,20,21,29; 29:3,4,9,10,14,15
LIQUID
A bath, about eight gallons and a half
1 Kings 7:26,38; 2 Chronicles 2:10; 4:5; Ezra 7:22; Isaiah 5:10; Ezekiel 45:10,11,14; Luke 16:6
A firkin, nearly nine gallons
John 2:6
A hin, about a gallon and a half
Exodus 29:40; 30:24; Leviticus 19:36; 23:13; Numbers 15:4-10; 28:5,7,14; Ezekiel 4:11
A log, about a pint, one-twelfth of a hin
Leviticus 14:10,12,15,21,24
LINEAR
A finger
Jeremiah 52:21
A handbreadth
Exodus 25:25; 37:12; 1 Kings 7:26; 2 Chronicles 4:5; Psalms 39:5; Ezekiel 40:5,43; 43:13
A span
Exodus 28:16; 1 Samuel 17:4; Isaiah 40:12; 48:13; Lamentations 2:20; Ezekiel 43:13
A cubit, the length of a man’s forearm
A reed, probably six cubits
Ezekiel 40:5
A fathom
Acts 27:28
A pace
2 Samuel 6:13
A furlong
Luke 24:13
A mile, probably nine-tenths of an English mile
Matthew 5:41
10. A Sabbath day’s journey, two thousand paces
Acts 1:12
MUST BE JUST
Leviticus 19:35,36; Deuteronomy 25:13-16; Proverbs 11:1; 16:11; 20:10,23; Hosea 12:7-9; Micah 6:10-12
