Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3734 - כֹּר kor

Original Word:	כֹּר
Transliteration:	kor
Phonetic Spelling:	(kore)
Definition:	kor (a measure)
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cor, measure

From the same as kuwr; properly, a deep round vessel, i.e. (specifically) a cor or measure for things dry -- cor, measure. Aramaic the same.

see HEBREW kuwr

Englishman's Concordance

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/Strong’s Number: from the same as H3564
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1031

Brown-Driver-Briggs

כֹּרnoun [masculine]kor, a measure (usually dry),=חֹמֶר (Ezekiel 45:14 compare Ezekiel 45:11) (Late Hebrew כּוֺר, Aramaic כּוֺרָא,

hence, as loan-words, Greek κόρος, Arabic

Frä²⁰⁷; √ dubious; כרה, Lag^{Or. ii. 30}, compare Id^{BN 40, 156}; כרר, Nö^{ZMG 1886, xi, 734}; Dl^{Prol. 113} compare Assyrian kâry, and derived from כור (but see now kâru Dl^{HWB 349})); — סֹלֶת׳כ1 Kings 5:2; קָ֑מַח׳כ v.1 Kings 4:2; of חִטִּים v.1 Kings 5:25 a; plural כֹּרִים of ׳ח and שְׂעֹרִים2Chron 2:9 (twice in verse); 2Chronicles 27:5; הַכֹּר as liquid measure (of oil) Ezekiel 45:14. See further Benz^{Archaeology 183 ff.} Now^{Archaeology i. 203, and, on capacity}, see III. חֹמֶר f. above; in 1 Kings 5:25 b read בַּת שֶׁמֶן for ᵑ0׳כֹּר שׁ (compare ᵐ5. and 2 Chron 2:9).

[כּוֺר] noun [masculine]kôr, a measure of wheat (Biblical Hebrew כֹּר); — plural absolute כּוֺרִיןEzra 7:22.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3734. כֹּר (kor) — 9 Occurrences

1 Kings 4:22
HEB:אֶחָ֑ד שְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים כֹּר֙ סֹ֔לֶת וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים
NAS: was thirty kors of fine flour
KJV: was thirty measures of fine flour,
INT: one was thirty kors of fine and sixty

1 Kings 4:22
HEB:סֹ֔לֶת וְשִׁשִּׁ֥ים כֹּ֖ר קָֽמַח׃
NAS: of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,
KJV: and threescore measures of meal,
INT: of fine and sixty kors of meal

1 Kings 5:11
HEB:עֶשְׂרִים֩ אֶ֨לֶף כֹּ֤ר חִטִּים֙ מַכֹּ֣לֶת
NAS: Hiram 20000kors of wheat as food
KJV: thousand measures of wheat
INT: and twenty thousand kors of wheat food

1 Kings 5:11
HEB:לְבֵית֔וֹ וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים כֹּ֖ר שֶׁ֣מֶן כָּתִ֑ית
NAS: and twenty kors of beaten
KJV: and twenty measures of pure
INT: his household and twenty kors oil of beaten

2 Chronicles 2:10
HEB:מַכּ֜וֹת לַעֲבָדֶ֗יךָ כֹּרִים֙ עֶשְׂרִ֣ים אֶ֔לֶף
NAS: the timber, 20000kors of crushed wheat
KJV: thousand measures of beaten
INT: of beaten servants measures twenty thousand

2 Chronicles 2:10
HEB:אֶ֔לֶף וּשְׂעֹרִ֕ים כֹּרִ֖ים עֶשְׂרִ֣ים אָ֑לֶף
NAS: and 20,000 kors of barley,
KJV: thousand measures of barley,
INT: thousand of barley measures and twenty thousand

2 Chronicles 27:5
HEB:וַעֲשֶׂ֨רֶת אֲלָפִ֤ים כֹּרִים֙ חִטִּ֔ים וּשְׂעוֹרִ֖ים
NAS: ten thousand kors of wheat and ten
KJV: thousand measures of wheat,
INT: ten thousand kors of wheat of barley

Ezra 7:22
HEB:וְעַד־ חִנְטִין֙ כֹּרִ֣ין מְאָ֔ה וְעַד־
NAS: of silver, 100kors of wheat, 100
KJV: and to an hundred measures of wheat,
INT: until of wheat measures an hundred until

Ezekiel 45:14
HEB:הַבַּת֙ מִן־ הַכֹּ֔ר עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת הַבַּתִּ֖ים
NAS: of a bath from [each] kor ([which is] ten
KJV: of a bath out of the cor, [which is] an homer
INT: of a bath at from kor ten baths

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