H3734: כֹּר
kôr · pronounced kore · “kor”
Definition
properly, a deep round vessel, i.e. (specifically) a cor or measure for things dry
KJV translates it as: cor, measure. Aramaic the same.
Word origin: from the same as H3564 (כּוּר);
Extended definition
1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths
1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)
1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)
Aramaic equivalent: kor (כּוֹר "kor" H3734B)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3734 is translated
- cors of ×4
- cors ×4
- cor ×1
Bible verses with H3734 (kôr)
Kôr appears in 6 verses.
- 1 Kings 4:22
And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
- 1 Kings 5:11
And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
- 2 Chronicles 27:5
He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.
- Ezra 7:22
Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.
- Ezekiel 45:14
Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer: