Bible | American/British | Metric |
Weight | ||
talent | 75 pounds | 34 kilograms |
mina | 1 1/4 pounds | 0.6 kilogram |
shekel (2 bekas) | 2/5 ounce | 11.5 grams |
pim (2/3 shekel) | 1/3 ounce | 7.6 grams |
bekah (10 gerahs) | 1/5 ounce | 5.5 grams |
gerah | 1/50 ounce | 0.6 gram |
Dry Capacity | ||
cor (homer) (10 ephahs) | 6 bushels | 220 liters |
lethek (5 ephahs) | 3 bushels | 110 liters |
ephah (10 omers) | 3/5 bushel | 22 liters |
seah (1/3 ephah) | 7 quarts | 7.3 liters |
omer (1/10 ephah) | 2 quarts | 2 liters |
cab (1/18 ephah) | 1 quart | 1 liter |
Liquid Capacity | ||
bath (1 ephah) | 6 gallons | 22 liters |
hin (1/6 bath) | 4 quarts | 4 liters |
log (1/72 bath) | 1/3 quart | 0.3 liter |
Length | ||
cubit | 18 inches | 0.5 meter |
span | 9 inches | 23 centimeters |
handbreadth | 3 inches | 8 centimeters |
Note: These conversions of weights and measures are based upon the best, conservative information available to us from ancient sources. It is not possible to be precise and some ancient measures definitely vary.