efa · ephah

What it means

efa (אֵיפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “ephah”.

A measure for grain, about twenty-two liters; also a measure in general.

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 grain measure, about 22 liters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×17
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×5

• Exodus 16:36

  The omer is a tenth of the ephah.

• Leviticus 5:11

  But if his means do not reach to two turtledoves or to two young pigeons, he shall bring, as his offering for what he has sinned, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it, and he shall not put frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 6:20

  “This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to YHWH on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just scales, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Numbers 28:5

  and a tenth of the ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil.

• Deuteronomy 25:14

  You shall not have in your house an ephah and an ephah, a large and a small.

• Deuteronomy 25:15

  A full and just weight you shall have; a full and just ephah you shall have; so that your days may be long on the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you.

• Judges 6:19

  Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from an ephah of flour; the meat he put in the basket, and the broth he put in the pot, and he brought them out to him under the oak and presented them.

• Ruth 2:17

  So she gleaned in the field until evening, and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.

• 1 Samuel 1:24

  And she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of YHWH at Shiloh. And the boy was young.

• 1 Samuel 17:17

  Jesse said to David his son, “Take, please, for your brothers this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves, and hurry them to the camp to your brothers.

• Proverbs 20:10

  Weight and weight, ephah and ephah, an abomination to YHWH are both of them.

• 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 45:13

  This is the contribution that you shall set apart: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, and you shall give a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley.

• Ezekiel 45:24

  And as a grain offering he shall offer an ephah for each bull and an ephah for each ram, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:5

  And the grain offering shall be an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs the grain offering shall be the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:7

  And an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram he shall offer as a grain offering, and for the lambs such as his means reach, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:11

  And at the feasts and at the appointed times the grain offering shall be an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs the gift of his hand, and a hin of oil for each ephah.

• Ezekiel 46:14

  And you shall offer a grain offering with it morning after morning, a sixth of an ephah, and oil, a third of a hin, to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to YHWH; statutes forever, continually.

• Amos 8:5

  saying, “When will the new moon be over, so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may open the stores of wheat, to make small the ephah and make great the shekel, and to falsify scales of deceit,

• Micah 6:10

  Are there still in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the scant ephah that provokes indignation?

• Zechariah 5:6

  And I said, “What is it?” And he said, “This is the ephah that is going out.” And he said, “This is their appearance in all the land.”

• Zechariah 5:7

  And look, a round cover of lead was lifted up, and this was a woman sitting in the midst of the ephah.

• Zechariah 5:8

  And he said, “This is wickedness.” And he threw her into the midst of the ephah, and threw the stone of lead on its mouth.

• Zechariah 5:9

  And I lifted up my eyes and saw, and look, two women coming out, and wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of the stork; and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.

• Zechariah 5:10

  And I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”

And 11 more times.