H3734 - כֹּר (kôr)

H3734 כֹּר (kôr) kore

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

properly, a deep round vessel, i.e. (specifically) a cor or measure for things dry

Derivation: from the same as H3564 (כּוּר);

KJV Usage: cor, measure. Aramaic the same.

TWOT Reference: 1031

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) kor, a measure (usually dry)

1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths

1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 l)

1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 l)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2884

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

כֹּר kôr BDB Definition: 1) kor, a measure (usually dry) 1a) a dry or liquid measure equal to 10 ephahs or baths 1a1) a dry measure containing 6.25 bushels (220 liters) 1a2) a liquid measure of 58 gallons (263 liters) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from the same as H3564 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1031 Total KJV Occurrences: 9

Bible Occurrences (5)

4:22 5:11

2:10 27:5

45:14

1 Kings 4:22

Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal,

1 Kings 5:11

and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000... cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 [baths] of pure olive oil....

2 Chronicles 2:10

I will pay your servants, the woodcutters......, 20,000 {}... cors of ground wheat, 20,000 {}... cors of barley, 20,000 {}... baths of wine, and 20,000 {}... baths of olive oil.

2 Chronicles 27:5

[Jotham] waged war against the king of the Ammonites... and defeated them,... and that year they... gave him a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand cors of wheat, and ten thousand [cors] of barley. [They]... paid him the same in the second and third years.

Ezekiel 45:14

The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath..., [is] a tenth of a bath from each cor [a cor consists of] ten baths [or] one homer, since ten baths [are equivalent to] a homer).