Bath
בַּתStrong’s H1324bat
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Bat is the Hebrew word usually translated “baths”, “bath” and “bath of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.”
Meaning
- Bath, a unit of liquid measure, equal to dry measure ephah (about 9 imperial gallons or 40 litres, rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount)
How it's translated
- baths 3
- the bath 3
- bath 2
- the baths 2
- a bath 1
- and a bath of 1
- and the bath 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:38Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
- Isaiah 5:10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
- Ezekiel 45:10Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Ezekiel 45:11The 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.
Hebrew dictionary
בַּת bat · bath
bath, a unit of liquid measure, equal to dry measure ephah (about 9 imperial gallons or 40 litres, rabbinical writings give sizes of one-half this amount) Aramaic equivalent: bat (בַּת "bath" H1325)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bath” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ATH, noun
- A place for bathing; a convenient vat or receptacle of water for persons to plunge or wash their bodies in.
- A place in which heat is applied to a body immersed in some substance.
- A house for bathing.
- A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or seven gallons and four pints, as a measure for liquids; and three pecks and three pints, as a dry measure.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.