different between ephah vs omer

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

Alternative forms

• (small unit of volume): gomer (archaic)
• (sheaf of barley): Omer

Etymology 1

From Hebrew ???? \ ?????? ('ómer, “sheaf”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?m??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?m??/

Noun

omer (plural omers)

1. (historical units of measure) A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
   • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:

     ...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.

   • 1769, Bible (KJV), Exodus XVI:

     And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.

2. A vessel of one omer.
3. (Judaism) The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.

Usage notes

In English, sometimes confounded with the much larger homer.

Synonyms

• (unit of volume): issaron

Meronyms

• (unit of volume): ephah, epha (10 omers); lethek, lethech (50 omers); homer, chomer, cor, kor (100 omers)

Etymology 2

Short for Sefirat Ha'Omer.

Noun

omer (uncountable)

1. (Judaism) The counting of the omer, that is, the period of 49 days between Passover and Shavuot.

References

• "omer, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• "H6016: `omer" in James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

Anagrams

• -more, Mero, More, Orem, Orme, Rome, erom, mero, mero-, moer, more