[774] Arias Mont. Thubal Cain.
לתך Lethec. It contained[775] fifteen Modios (i.) Sata; that is, two bushels, six gallons, and a pottle. Mention of this is made, Hos. 3. 2. It is there rendred in English, half an Homer.
[775] Epiph. de mensur. & Ponderib.
חמר Homer. It is so called from חמור Chamor, Asinus, an Ass, because this measure contained so much grain or corn as an Ass could well bear. It contained ten Ephahs, Ezek. 45. 11. that is, forty five gallons or five bushels, and five gallons.
כור Cor, Corus. The Cor, and the Homer, were of the same quantity, Ezek. 45. 14. It was not only of liquid things, Luke 16. 7.
These measures of which we have spoken hitherto, the Hebrews used in measuring dry things: Three other measures there were, which they used for liquid or moist things.
לוג Log. It contained[776] six egg-shells. It was of the same quantity as the fourth part of a Kab, half a pint.
[776] Buxtorf. in loco superius citato.
הין Hin. It contained[777] the quantity of seventy two egg-shells, so that it was of our measure three quarts.