sea · seah

What it means

sea (סְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seah”.

A measure for grain, about 7 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 measure for flour, about seven liters.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• two seahs ×4
• seah ×3
• seahs ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×6

• Genesis 18:6

  So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, three seahs of flour, fine flour! Knead it and make cakes.”

• 1 Samuel 25:18

  Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep ready dressed, and five seahs of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on the donkeys.

• 1 Kings 18:32

  With the stones he built an altar in the name of YHWH; and he made a trench, like an area for two seahs of seed, around the altar.

• 2 Kings 7:1

  Elisha said, “Hear the word of YHWH: thus says YHWH, ‘About this time tomorrow a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.’”

• 2 Kings 7:16

  The people went out and plundered the camp of Aram. And a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, according to the word of YHWH.

• 2 Kings 7:18

  It happened as the man of Elohim had spoken to the king, saying, “Two seahs of barley for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour for a shekel, will be sold about this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria.”

And 3 more times.