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Cor; a large unit of dry (and occasionally liquid) measure, approximately 220 liters or 6 bushels.
A noun designating the cor (also spelled kor), one of the largest standard measures in ancient Israel, equivalent to the homer and approximately 220 liters or 6 bushels. Solomon's daily provisions included thirty cors of fine flour and sixty cors of meal (1 Kgs 4:22), while Ezekiel 45:14 defines the cor as a liquid measure for oil. The word entered Greek as koros and Arabic as kurr, testifying to its widespread use across ancient Near Eastern trade. French renders it variously as cors and mesure, while Spanish uses the transliterated coros.
Senses
1. cor (unit of dry measure) — A large volumetric unit for measuring grain, flour, and occasionally oil, equal to approximately 220 liters. Solomon's court consumed thirty cors of fine flour daily (1 Kgs 4:22); Huram supplied twenty thousand cors of wheat to Solomon's workers (2 Chr 2:10); and Jotham received ten thousand cors of wheat and ten thousand of barley as annual tribute (2 Chr 27:5). In Ezekiel 45:14, the cor is used as a liquid measure for olive oil, defined in relation to the bath. The French rendering mesure and the Spanish coros both reflect its function as a standard trade unit across the ancient Near East. 8×
AR["الْ-كُرِّ", "كُرًا", "كُرَّ", "كُرِّ", "كُورًا", "كُورُ"]·ben["কোর", "ষাট"]·DE["Widder", "cors"]·EN["cors", "kors-of", "the-cor"]·FR["béliers", "cors", "mesure"]·heb["ה-כור", "כור", "כרים"]·HI["कोर"]·ID["kor"]·IT["[הכר]", "arieti", "cor"]·jav["kor", "kor-"]·KO["고르들", "고르의", "그-코르", "코르"]·PT["cores", "coros-de", "o-coro"]·RU["кора", "коров"]·ES["coros", "el-cor"]·SW["elfu", "ishirini", "kori", "na-kori", "thelathini"]·TR["kor", "kor'dan"]·urd["کور"]
Related Senses
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† כֹּר n.[m.] kōr, a measure (usually dry), = חֹמֶר (Ez 45:14 cf. v 11) (NH כּוֹר, Aramaic כּוֹרָא, ܟܽܘܪܳܐ; hence, as loan-words, Gk. κόρος, Arabic كُرٌّ Frä 207; √ dub.; כרה, LagOr. ii. 30, cf. Id. BN 40, 156; כרר, Nö ZMG 1886, xl. 734; DlProl. 113 comp. Assyrian kâru, and der. from כור (but see now kâru DlHWB 349));—כ׳ סֹלֶת 1 K 5:2; כ׳ קָ֑מַח v 2; of חִטִּים v 25 a; pl. כֹּרִים of ח׳ and…