STRONGS NUMBER H5429

H5429. seah

סְאָה‎ noun feminine (see below) se'ah, a measure of flour, grain, etc. (√ unknown; perhaps foreign word; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic סָאתָא סְאָה,‎, , , (Greek σάτον, Lewy^{Fremdwörter 116 f})); — absolute סְאָהֿ‎ 2 Kings 7:1, 16, וּסֳאָהֿ‎ 7:18 (Baer Ginsb compare Ges^{§ 10h}); dual סָאתַיִם‎ 1 Kings 18:32 3t.; plural סְאִים‎ Genesis 18:6; 1 Samuel 25:18; — always with appositive of thing measured, Genesis 18:6 (J), 1 Samuel 25:18; 1 Kings 18:32; 2 Kings 7:1 (twice in verse); 7:16 (twice in verse); 7:18 (twice in verse) (where apparently masculine, perhaps after analogy of other measures of capacity, כֹּר תֹמֶר, הִין,‎, etc., Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 95}); — סַאסְּאָה‎ Isaiah 27:8 see סאסא‎. — On size of se'ah = 1/3 ephah, = 12.148 litres (= 10.696 qts.), see Now^{Archaeology i. 203} Benz^{Archaeology 183}.