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H3963

לֶ֫תֶךְ

le.tekhH:N-M

lethek

1) barley-measure 1a) uncertain measurement but thought to be half an homer-5 ephahs

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

לֶ֫תֶךְ noun [masculine] a barley-measure (Late Hebrew id., a corn-measure); only in שְׂעֹרִים ׳חֹמֶרשְֿׂעֹרִים וְל Hos 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 ׳שׂ ׳ל.

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