Strong's Greek: 4568. σάτον (saton) -- seah, a (Hebrew) measure (equiv. to about one and a half pecks)

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Lexical Summary

saton: seah, a (Hebrew) measure (equiv. to about one and a half pecks)

Original Word: σάτον
Transliteration: saton
Phonetic Spelling: (sat'-on)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: seah, a (Hebrew) measure (equiv. to about one and a half pecks)
Meaning: seah, a (Hebrew) measure (equivalent to about one and a half pecks)

Strong's Concordance

measure.

Of Hebrew origin (c'ah); a certain measure for things dry -- measure.

see HEBREW c'ah

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 4568: σάτον

σάτον (Hebrew כְאָה, Chaldean כָאתָא, Syriac )t)S []), σατου, τό, a kind of dry measure, a modius and a half (equivalent to about a peck and a half (cf. μόδιος)) (Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 5 ἰσχύει δέ τό σάτον μόδιον, καί ἥμισυ ἰταλικον; cf. Genesis 18:6 (see Aq. and Symm.); Judges 6:19): Matthew 13:33; Luke 13:21, (in both examples A. V. 'three measures of meal' i. e. the common quantity for 'a baking' (cf. Genesis 18:6; Judges 6:19; 1 Samuel 1:24)).

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