H1325 H1325
baths — a liquid measure unit, roughly 22 liters or 6 gallons, used for wine, oil, and water
The bath was a standard unit of liquid measurement in ancient Israel, approximately equal to six gallons. In Ezra 7:22, it appears in duplicate within a single verse specifying the Persian king's authorization for temple supplies: up to 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil. This Aramaic form of a common Hebrew measurement term reflects the bureaucratic precision of Persian-period administration, where exact quantities mattered for royal accounting of religious subsidies.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A liquid measure used in Persian-period administrative texts to quantify wine and oil allocations for the temple. Both occurrences in Ezra 7:22 specify royal support for temple operations, demonstrating how this standard measurement facilitated imperial oversight of religious institutions. The word appears in Aramaic sections of Ezra, reflecting official Persian chancellery language. 2×
AR["بَتَّات"]·ben["বাত"]·DE["[בתין]"]·EN["baths"]·FR["[בתין]"]·heb["בתין"]·HI["बत"]·ID["bat"]·IT["[בתין]"]·jav["bat"]·KO["뱃"]·PT["batos", "batos-de"]·RU["батов"]·ES["batos", "batos-de"]·SW["bathi"]·TR["bat"]·urd["بت"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [בַּת] n.[m.] bath, liquid measure (𝔗; perhaps loan-word from BH ii. בַּת, √ בתת);—pl. abs. בַּתִּין Ezr 7:22(×2).