The three bullocks, with the ephah of flour and the bottle of wine brought to Shiloh when the child was presented to the Lord, were probably the fulfilment of Elkanah's vow.
The cordiality with which Elkanah accepted his wife's view of the case is seen further in the ample offering which he took to Shiloh--three bullocks, an ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine.
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.
Pere Germer-Durand thinks from a study of Josephus and Epiphanius that the largest of his vessels represents the Ephah of dry measure or the Bath of liquid measure.
The Ephah of dry measure equalled the Bath of liquid measure, and the Cab was the same in each.
And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.
And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
The 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.
The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning, and the other lamb shalt thou offer at even; 28:5 And a tenth part of anephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.
And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
But deciding first as to his burnt or slain offering, he must add to it, for a lamb, the tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil, and also a quarter of a hin of wine.
She has the offering of jealousy in her hand--the tenth part of an ephah of barley-meal.
The ephah for dry measure and the bath for liquid measure are each fixed at the tenth part of a homer.
They "made the ephah small and the shekel great, and dealt falsely with balances of deceit.
That is to say, the taxes were surreptitiously increased by the use of a large shekel (for weighing out money payments) and a large bath and ephah (for measuring tribute paid in kind).
Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah{An ephah is a measure of volume, and a short ephah is made smaller than a full ephah for the purpose of cheating customers.
Now they had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the ephah basket between earth and the sky.
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure of it shall be after the homer.
On the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.
He shall prepare a meal offering, an ephah for a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
In the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephahfor a bull, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
The ephah is carried, and in it the woman, by two women with wings of storks into the land of Shinar, and there a house is built and it is established on her own base.
In the second place let us notice that in the midst of the ephah there is seen a woman.
The woman in the ephahrepresents the same great whore, Babylon the great.
This becomes at once clear when we take into consideration that the woman in the ephah is carried swiftly away and a house is built for her in the land of Shinar, and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.
She has surrounded herself with the ephah and sits in the midst of it.
Finally, the vision of the ephah and the woman, so to speak, sealed up in it, may denote also the overthrow and judgment of wickedness.
And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren; and carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand.
And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and behold there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.
The ephah is named here, of course, as a standard of dry measure, and the hin as a standard of liquid measure.
And the meal offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
And thou shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
An ephah (dry measure) equals a bath (liquid measure), and ten of either is a homer or cor.
And Joksham begat Dedan, and the sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher (p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ephah" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
