different between ephah vs bushel

English

Alternative forms

• epha

Etymology

From Hebrew ??????? (eifá), from Egyptian jpt (“oipe, a dry measure of volume about 19.2 liters”). Doublet of oipe.

Noun

ephah (plural ephahs)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L).

   • Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Meronyms

• cab, kab (¹?₁₈ ephah); omer, issaron (¹?₁₀ ephah); seah (¹?₃ ephah); lethek, lethech (5 ephahs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (10 ephahs)

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

English

Etymology

From Middle English busshel, from Old French boissel, from boisse, a grain measure based on Gaulish *bosty? (“handful”), from Proto-Celtic *bost? (“palm, fist”) (compare Breton boz (“hollow of the hand”), Old Irish bas), from Proto-Indo-European *gwost-, *gwosd?- (“branch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???l/
• Hyphenation: bush?el
• Rhymes: -???l

Noun

bushel (plural bushels)

1. (historical) A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 207:

     The quarter, bushel, and peck are nearly universal measures of corn.

2. A vessel of the capacity of a bushel, used in measuring; a bushel measure.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IV:

     And he sayde unto them: is the candle lighted, to be put under a busshell, or under the borde: ys it not therfore lighted that it shulde be put on a candelsticke?

3. A quantity that fills a bushel measure.

4. (colloquial) A large indefinite quantity.
5. (Britain) The iron lining in the nave of a wheel.

   Synonym: box

Derived terms

• hide one's light under a bushel

Translations

See also

• kenning (“half a bushel”)

Verb

bushel (third-person singular simple present bushels, present participle busheling or bushelling, simple past and past participle busheled or bushelled)

1. (US, tailoring, transitive, intransitive) To mend or repair clothes.
2. To pack grain, hops, etc. into bushel measures.

Finnish

Noun

bushel

1. Alternative form of busheli

Declension