Kôr — H3734

Definition

masculine noun

properly, a deep round vessel, i.e. (specifically) a cor or measure for things dry

1. kor, a measure (usually dry)
1. a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths
1. a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)
2. a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)

Usually translated as

cor, measure

Origin

from the same as H3564

• Same as Kûwr (H3564)

Greek equivalents

• kóros (G2884)

Occurrences

Kôr occurs 9 times in 6 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (2), 2 Chronicles (2), Ezra (1), Ezekiel (1)

• 1 Kings 4:22 — And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures (כֹּר֙) of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
• 1 Kings 4:22 — And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures (כֹּ֖ר) of meal,
• 1 Kings 5:11 — And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures (כֹּ֤ר) of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
• 1 Kings 5:11 — And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures (כֹּ֖ר) of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
• 2 Chronicles 2:10 — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures (כֹּרִים֙) of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
• 2 Chronicles 2:10 — And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures (כֹּרִ֖ים) of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
• 2 Chronicles 27:5 — He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures (כֹּרִים֙) of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
• Ezra 7:22 — Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures (כֹּרִ֣ין) of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
• Ezekiel 45:14 — Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the (הַכֹּ֔ר) cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: