Encyclopedia entry
Measures
[Weights And Measures AND MEASURES]
In the Bible
39
Verses where Measures is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Kings 4:22
Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,
- 1 Kings 5:11
and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- 1 Kings 7:9
All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
- 1 Kings 7:11
Above these were costly stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 18:32
And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
- 1 Samuel 25:18
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys
+33 more verses naming Measures.
Scripture on Measures
25
Entries that reference Measures
19
Measures references
1
Voices on Measures
2
Surfaced by name match — accuracy varies by title clarity.
Sources · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
Public-domain text. Modernized only where archaic spelling impedes reading; original facts preserved. Verify against an authoritative modern reference before quoting.


