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CAB

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BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA and DICTIONARY

A measure mentioned in 2 Kings 6:25. The Rabbins make it the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, or the one hundred and eightieth part of a homer. In that case a cab contained three and one-third pints of our wine measure, ar two and five-sixths pints of English corn measure.

EASTON'S
BIBLE DICTIONARY

hollow (R.V., "kab"), occurs only in 2 Kings 6:25; a dry measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah, equal to about two English quarts.

A dry measure containing about one quart
2 Kings 6:25

See MEASURE

TORREY'S
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