STRONGS G4568:
σάτον (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)).
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