bat · bath (measure)

What it means

bat (בַּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bath (measure)”.

Bath: a measure for liquids (oil, wine, water), equal to the ephah for dry goods, about 22 liters.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A liquid measure, about 22 liters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• baths ×7
• bath ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×7

• 1 Kings 7:26

  And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim like the work of the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  And he made ten basins of bronze; forty baths each basin held; each basin was four cubits; one basin on each base for the ten bases.

• 2 Chronicles 2:10

  And look, to the woodcutters, to those who cut the trees, to your servants, I give twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower; it took in and held three thousand baths.

• Isaiah 5:10

  For ten acres of vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.

• Ezekiel 45:10

  You shall have just balances, a just ephah, and a just bath.

• Ezekiel 45:11

  The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath contains a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; according to the homer shall be its measure.

• Ezekiel 45:14

  And the statute for the oil, the bath of oil: a tenth of a bath from each kor; ten baths are a homer, for ten baths are a homer.

And 5 more times.