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	Ancient Hebrew units of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mishna and Talmud are replete with detailed instructions concerning weights and measures.
		Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were:
		Hebrew word means a "grain" or "kernel"; hence, a small weight
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hebrew_weights (433 words)

	Weight
		In physics, the weight of an object is the force exerted upon it due to gravity.
		In a constant gravitational field like the Earth's, this force is proportional to the object's mass, and as a result the terms are often used interchangeably and indeed went historically undistinguished.
		Related to the historical identification of mass and weight, the pound has been used both as a unit of mass and as a unit of force.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/we/Weights.html (192 words)

	Weights, Measures, and Coins: From the Bible Through the Talmudic Period
		The seventh weight, the kesitah (Genesis 33:19; Joshua 24:32; Job 42:11), seems to be an archaic weight and the origin of its name and its metrological value are not known.
		A bronze weight in the shape of a turtle was found in the coastal plain; on its reverse side it bears the inscription "one-quarter shekel." And in fact, a weight of this sort (one-quarter shekel) is mentioned in I Samuel 9:8.
		The Hebrew legend, written in the old Hebrew script, almost always appeared in the formula, "X, the high priest and the assembly of the elders of the state of the Jews." The Hasmonean rulers were thus styled on most coins as high priests.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/weightsandmeasures.html (4012 words)

	Bidirectional languages : Globalizing your e-business
		Hebrew is spoken by 95% of the population and used in all types of writing, from religious to technical.
		The Hebrew alphabet uses 27 characters to represent 22 consonants—the disparity is because five consonants have different shapes when used at the end of a word.
		Hebrew words are generally derived from a three-letter fundamental root by the addition of some combination of prefixes, suffixes, or infixes.
	www-306.ibm.com /software/globalization/topics/bidi/hebrew.html (2091 words)

	W - Smith's Bible Dictionary
		(1) The relations of these weights, as usually: employed for the standard of weighing silver, and their absolute values, determined from the extant silver coins, and confirmed from other sources, were as follows, in grains exactly and in avoirdupois weight approximately: (2) For gold a different shekel was used, probably of foreign introduction.
		The Hebrew word translated willows is generic, and includes several species of the large family of Salices, which is well represented in Palestine and the Bible lands, such as the Salix alba, S. viminalis (osier), S. aegyptiaca.
		The Hebrews, then, a branch of the great Semitic family, being in possession of the art of writing, according to their own historical records, at a very early period, the further questions arise, what character they made use of, and whence they obtained it.
	www.god-country-history.com /bibledict/Smiths_Bible_Dict_W.html (8319 words)

	Week - Zelotes -- Adam2.org
		The wilderness region in the Sinaitic peninsula through which for forty years the Hebrews wandered is generally styled "the wilderness of the wanderings." This entire region is in the form of a triangle, having its base toward the north and its apex toward the south.
		This Hebrew word has been traced to a root meaning "to take possession of" and hence it is supposed that tirosh is so designated because in intoxicating it takes possession of the brain.
		When the Hebrews entered Canaan it is evident that the art of writing was known to the original inhabitants, as appears, e.g., from the name of the city Debir having been at first Kirjath-sepher, i.e., the "city of the book," or the "book town" (Josh.
	www.adam2.org /eastons/ebd/T0003800.html (8292 words)

	Weights and Measures; Things of the Bible; Bible Picture Tour
		Understanding the Biblical background of weights and measures may be a key to fully understanding what's happening in these passages.
		In addition, weights, or measures, or measuring is spoken of various times in the gospels, other books of the New Testament, and many Old Testament books, including Ezekiel, Amos, Hosea, Zechariah, and others.
		``Bath is the Hebrew word for daughter and suggests that it was the amount of water carried in a jar from the well by the daughters of the household (cf.
	www.mustardseed.net /html/tweightmeasure.html (1691 words)

	Easton's Bible Dictionary
		Wean Among the Hebrews children (whom it was customary for the mothers to nurse, Exo 2:7; Sa1 1:23; Sol 8:1) were not generally weaned till they were three or four years old.
		In the wilderness, the Hebrews practiced it (Exo 26:1, Exo 26:8; Exo 28:4, Exo 28:39; Lev 13:47).
		Weights Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were:, (1.) The gerah (Lev 27:25; Num 3:47), a Hebrew word, meaning a grain or kernel, and hence a small weight.
	www.sacred-texts.com /bib/ebd/ebd380.htm (673 words)

	Epiphanius of Salamis, Weights and Measures (1935) pp.v-xii, 1-9. Foreword and introduction.
		If Epiphanius himself made a mere show of his knowledge of Hebrew, it is unforgivable that he placed something of his own concoction in place of the original, which was easily obtainable and was well known to his pet adversary Origen before him and to his admiring friend Jerome in his own time.
		The curtailed portion of the Greek dealing with the weights and measures per se may be from the summary of that part.
		This is a mere catalogue of measures and is unmistakably interpolated in the midst of the discussion of the kor in both the Greek and the Syriac.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/epiphanius_weights_02_intro.htm (5143 words)

	Weights, Measures and Volumes of the Ancient Mediterranean
		Counts of barleycorns were also used for reference to the grain weight of the Hebrew gold Shekel, whereas carob beans became the medium, at some latter era, for "jeweller's weights" (carats) in weighing out quantities of precious gems and gold.
		Grain weight, as a set ancient method for arriving at a weight standard, was derived from counted quantities of healthy wheat seeds and the original stone or metal "scale weights", used by ancient traders, merchants or official assayers were first determined by counting out exact numbers of wheat seeds.
		The largest weights created, nation-by-nation, which are generally referred to as "Talents" by modern archaeologists, would be in a precise ratio to smaller weights within the selfsame family of weights.
	www.celticnz.co.nz /Weights_Measures_Volumes/Weights_Measures.htm (17569 words)

	Epiphanius of Salamis, Weights and Measures (1935) pp.11-83. English translation
		And the Hebrew is abundantly used to this measure because of the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, whence they acquired the use of the measure.
		weights fall into the two scale pans of a balance, and by the weight that is equal in counterpoise that which is in the other scale pan is weighed, that {67b} is, suspended.
		for weighing by the heaviness of a (known) weight, and by the knob of the scales it is determined according to the swerving, being estimated and weighed according to the lines of distance.
	www.tertullian.org /fathers/epiphanius_weights_03_text.htm (16164 words)

	VUW Chaplaincies / Issues / Competing Visions of a Christian Aproach to Intergenerational Public Policy
		Hebrew weights of the seventh century attest a standard system, perhaps introduced by Hezekiah.
		The occurrence of the weights marked payim only in the seventh century does not imply the unit had no earlier existence; fractions of the shekel are normal in cuneiform documents.
		Whether or not one shares the Hebrew writer's faith, it is not justifiable to dismiss his assertion that something unusual took place, which caused Sennacherib to leave without taking the city.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /chaplains/issues/on-solid-ground.html (5506 words)

	HSB: Hebrew-English Dictionary
		This dictionary is not for in-depth Hebrew word studies but is very useful for quick referencing of words.
		However, if you are not already pretty good at Hebrew grammar (you don't need a rabbi, as another poster mentioned, but a good teacher or a good book/tape combo will be crucial), you won't be able to find words in the dictionary, because of the way Hebrew grammar changes the way things look.
		It is not lacking in this area, but my main problem with it is that the hebrew type is so small that sometimes a 'pe' (modified form of 'fe') appears as a large blot because of the dagesh in the center.
	www.ancient-hebrew.org /hebrewstudies/210.html (1050 words)

	ipedia.com: Historical weights and measures Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From May 1 1683, king Christian V of Denmark introduced an office to oversee weights and measures, a justervesen, to be led by Ole Rømer.
		In Sweden, a common system for weights and measures was introduced by law in 1665.
		Up to the middle of the 19th century there was a death penalty for falsifying weights or measures.
	www.ipedia.com /historical_weights_and_measures.html (3535 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hebrew Life and Times, by Harold B. Hunting
		Again and again Hebrew children would see the dust of marching armies over the roads past their pastures and men would say, "Rameses is going to war again." And by and by, weeks or months later, the soldiers would return with tales of bloody battles and sometimes laden with spoils.
		So when the Hebrews crossed the Jordan and gradually fought their way to the highland fields and villages where they were able to settle down and live as farmers and vineyard keepers instead of shepherds, they soon found that they had much to learn.
		After the Hebrews came it was not long before ambitious Hebrew boys and girls were staring at the queer marks in the inscriptions which they found here and there, over the gates of Canaanite cities or on the tombs of Canaanite kings.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/18187/18187-h/18187-h.htm (17552 words)

	Money, Coins, Weights & Measures
		Weight 1/20 of a shekel, or about 1/2 a dram, Avoirdupois.
		Weight = 3,000 shekels of the sanctuary (Exodus 38:25, 26).
		Hebrew log (Leviticus 14:10, 12, 15, 21, 21).
	hammer.prohosting.com /~eyes2see/51.html (333 words)

	bible.org: Smith's Bible Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Babylonian talent may be determined from existing weights found by.
		.-- I. --In the Hebrew, as in every other system, these measures are of two classes: length, in the ordinary sense, for objects whose size we wish to determine, and distance, or itinerary measures, and the two are connected by some definite relation, more or less simple, between their units.
		Hence arises the difficulty of determining the ratio of the foot to the
	www.bible.org /smith.asp?id=4454 (1512 words)

	The Footnoting System of the NIV Bible
		Sometimes when one is translating back into Hebrew, one of the early translations is found not to be identical with the reading in the NIV but tends in one way or another to substantiate the NIV rendering.
		Translators of the Hebrew Bible find their task not an easy one, partly since there is no body of ancient Hebrew literature to shed light on the vocabulary and idioms employed, and partly because of faulty copying of manuscripts.
		For most Hebrew weights and measures, the translators preferred to transliterate the terms, partly due to the fact that they portray better the ancient character of the writing, but perhaps even more because the traditional American system of weights and measures would result more often than not in the use of complicated fractions or decimals.
	www.ibs.org /niv/mct/2.php (2854 words)

	Easton, Bible, Dicionary (Site Berea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Reduced to English troy-weight, the Hebrew weights were: (1.) The gerah (Lev.
		The common Hebrew word for wine is _yayin_, from a root meaning "to boil up," "to be in a ferment." Others derive it from a root meaning "to tread out," and hence the juice of the grape trodden out.
		In addition to wine the Hebrews also made use of what they called _debash_, which was obtained by boiling down must to one-half or one-third of its original bulk.
	www.site-berea.com /D/ebd/T0003800.html (4902 words)

	Ari Davidow: Hebrew Typesetter Extraordinaire: Looking at Prayer Books
		The Hebrew is our old friend, Frank-Rühl, which I think of as the "Times Roman" or "Helvetica" of Hebrew - ubiquitous to the point where I try to avoid it.
		Again, the type is undistinguished, and the Hebrew has traces of the ArtScroll cacaphony with slightly outsized initial words on many sections.
		The aim of this Siddur is twofold--to afford the suppliant an opportunity to learn and understand the meaning of the words of prayer, and at the same time encourage him to adopt a slower more realistic pace of davening which will also permit him to pronounce each word properly.
	www.ivritype.com /hebrew/2004/08/looking_at_pray.php (1306 words)

	Smith's Bible Dictionary - Large Print - William Smith 1884
		Measures.-- I. Measures OF LENGTH.--In the Hebrew, as in every other system, these measures are of two classes: length, in the ordinary sense, for objects whose size we wish to determine, and distance, or itinerary measures, and the two are connected by some definite relation, more or less simple, between their units.
		That the Hebrews recognized the existence of four prevailing winds as issuing, broadly speaking, from the four cardinal points, north, south, east and west, may be inferred from their custom of using the expression "four winds" as equivalent to the "four quarters" of the hemisphere.
		The position of women in the Hebrew commonwealth contrasts favorably with that which in the present day is assigned to them generally in eastern countries.
	www.biblehelpsonline.com /smith/smith-w.htm (8499 words)

	Balloon Weights at Balloonplace
		Not only are these weights attractive, but they are made for just about every single occasion there is.
		Our Mini-Giftbag Balloon Weights are just perfect for the tabletop, or they can be used as a decorative centerpiece.
		You need to make sure that the weights are heavy enough to keep the balloons from floating away.
	www.balloonplace.com /catalog/weights.html (661 words)

	LaserHebrew
		The NewJerusalem Hebrew font (which closely matches the shapes and weights of the characters and accents in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia), the Hebraica II font (a standard classical-style square Hebrew font) and the Bethel II font (a Ramat-style modern Hebrew font) contain all vowel points and accents occurring in the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
		ScriptHebrew II is an informal, handwritten-style modern Hebrew font and Arad Level VI LS is an inscriptional-style Hebrew font following the representation of Hebrew characters in level VI of the Arad excavations.
		The fonts are especially valuable for those working with the Hebrew Scriptures (which are formatted in NewJerusalem), allowing you to copy and paste portions of the text into your document.
	www.linguistsoftware.com /lheb.htm (2316 words)

	W's
		Among the Hebrews children (whom it was customary for the mothers to nurse,)Ex 2:7-9 1Sa 1:23 So 8:1 were not generally weaned till they were three or four years old.
		Shekel, "a weight, "only in the Old Testament, and frequently in its original form Ge 23:15,16 Ex 21:32 30:13,15 38:24-29 etc. It was equal to 10 pennyweight.
		In the symbolical language of the Apocalypse Re 8:10,11 a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood.
	www.homestead.com /sglblibrary/files/Dictionary/W2.htm (4899 words)

	archaeological-center.com - licensed to sell ancient history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Of special interest is seal no. 44 'Belonging to Kushi, son of Toba', a Judean Hebrew personal seal made of brown limestone.
		This is the fourth lead weight belonging to the Bar Kokhba administration that has been recorded to date.
		While the three previously published weights bear Hebrew inscriptions in square Jewish script, the weight under discussion is unique regarding its palaeo-Hebrew script.
	v2.archaeological-center.com /articles (622 words)

	Tel Arad, an Archaeological Discovery for the Bible and Book of Mormon
		Ivan Tracy Kaufman - "New Evidence For Hieratic Numerals on Hebrew Weights" in the "Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research" - BASOR - Number 188, Dec. 1967, pp.
		Yohanan Aharoni - "The Use of Hieratic Numerals in Hebrew Ostraca and the Shekel Weights", in BASOR, Number 184, Dec. 1966, pp.
		Also showing the Egyptian weights and equivilants with the Hebrew is David Diringer, "The Early Hebrew Weights found at Lachish", in the "Palestine Exploration Quarterly", 1942-43, pp.
	www2.ida.net /graphics/shirtail/telarad.htm (746 words)

	HSB: The Jewish Study Bible
		This innovative volume will, for the first time, offer readers of the Hebrew Bible a resource that is specifically tailored to meet their needs.
		The JSB uses The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation, whose name is an acronym formed from the Hebrew initials of the three sections into which the Hebrew Bible is traditionally divided (Torah, Instruction; Nevi'im, Prophets; and Kethubim, Writings).
		Unlike other English translations based upon such ancient versions as the Septuagint and Vulgate, which emend the Hebrew text, TANAKH is faithful to the original text.
	www.ancient-hebrew.org /hebrewstudies/111.html (882 words)

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		However, this name in the Hebrew is an entirely different Hebrew word than that of the ephah, when used as a measurement.
		Hebrews 11:6 - “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
		According to Strong’s Hebrew, word #3427 “sitteth” is translated as: to dwell; abide; remain; inhabited or inhabitants; to continue; to tarry; sitteth; sat; endure or together.
	spiritualbiblestudies.com /EphahStudy.htm (9917 words)

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