NT-EPISTLES.filter - rwp measures:

rwp@1Corinthians:9:9 @ "Thresh ye yourselves, O oxen, Measures of grain for yourselves, Measures of grain for your masters."

rwp@Luke:16:6 @{Measures} (\batous\). Transliterated word for Hebrew _bath_, between eight and nine gallons. Here alone in the N.T. Not the same word as \batos\ ({bush}) in strkjv@Luke:6:44|. {Thy bond} (\sou ta grammata\). Thy writings, thy contracts, thy note. {Quickly} (\taches\). It was a secret arrangement and speed was essential.

rwp@Luke:16:7 @{Measures} (\korous\). Another Hebrew word for dry measure. The Hebrew _cor_ was about ten bushels. Data are not clear about the Hebrew measures whether liquid ({bath}) or dry ({cor}).

rwp@Matthew:13:33 @{Is like unto leaven} (\homoia estin zumi\). In its pervasive power. Curiously enough some people deny that Jesus here likens the expanding power of the Kingdom of heaven to leaven, because, they say, leaven is the symbol of corruption. But the language of Jesus is not to be explained away by such exegetical jugglery. The devil is called like a lion by Peter (1Peter:5:8|) and Jesus in Revelation is called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Revelation:5:5|). The leaven permeates all the "wheaten meal" (\aleurou\) till the whole is leavened. There is nothing in the "three measures," merely a common amount to bake. Dr. T.R. Glover in his _Jesus of History_ suggests that Jesus used to notice his mother using that amount of wheat flour in baking bread. To find the Trinity here is, of course, quite beside the mark. The word for leaven, \zum\, is from \ze\, to boil, to seethe, and so pervasive fermentation.