This noun denotes the bath, a Hebrew liquid measure roughly equivalent to 8-9 gallons or 30-40 liters. Jesus uses it in the parable of the dishonest manager (Luke 16:6), where a debtor owes 'a hundred baths of oil' and the manager tells him to change the bill to fifty. The term grounds the parable in the economic realities of first-century Palestine, where large agricultural debts were calculated in standard measures. The manager's shrewd reduction of the debt (by half!) is scandalous yet commended by Jesus for its strategic foresight. The βάτος is a concrete unit that measures both the debt and the grace extended.