King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3963
Transliteration: lethek
Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-thek)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a dry measure
Meaning: a measure for, things dry
Word Summary
lethek: a dry measure
Original Word: לֶתֶךְTransliteration: lethek
Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-thek)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a dry measure
Meaning: a measure for, things dry
Strong's Concordance
half homer From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a measure for things dry -- half homer.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3963. lethek
לֶ֫תֶךְ noun [masculine] a barley-measure (Late Hebrew id., a corn-measure); only in וְל ׳חֹמֶרשְֿׂעֹרִים שְׂעֹרִים Hosea 3:2; according to ᵑ9 = 1/2 כֹּר = 1/2 חֹמֶר (q. v.), compare Mishna (LevyNHWB ii. 531), but this tradition is uncertain (compare NowArchaeology i. 203); ᵐ5 νέβελ οἴνου, for ׳ל ׳שׂ.