kor · kor

What it means

kor (כֹּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “kor”.

A large measure for grain and flour, equal to the homer (ten ephahs), about 220 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 large measure for grain or oil, about 220 liters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cors ×4
• kors ×4
• each kor ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Ezekiel×1

• 1 Kings 4:22

  And the food of Solomon for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,

• 1 Kings 5:11

  And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand kors of wheat as sustenance for his house, and twenty kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give to Hiram year by year.

• 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 27:5

  He fought with the king of the sons of Ammon and prevailed against them, and the sons of Ammon gave him in that year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand cors of wheat and of barley ten thousand. This the sons of Ammon paid him also in the second year and the third.

• Ezra 7:22

  up to one hundred talents of silver, and up to one hundred cors of wheat, and up to one hundred baths of wine, and up to one hundred baths of oil, and salt without 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 3 more times.