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bat

בַּת

AramaicH1325“bath”

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Ezr 7:22 (2×)

Main variant

בַּת“bath”H1324

This is the Aramaic form of bath, the largest liquid measure in the Bible. It occurs in one verse only, in the plural, inside Artaxerxes's written order in Ezra, where the king allows the temple treasury to issue Ezra up to a hundred baths of wine and a hundred baths of oil. It names exactly the same unit as the ordinary Hebrew bath used for wine, for oil and for the capacity of the bronze basin in Kings, Chronicles, Isaiah and Ezekiel. Only the language and the shape of its plural ending set it apart.

Other variants

The same word in another spelling or form.

בַּתHebrew“bath”Bath is the standard Hebrew name for the largest liquid measure in the Bible, the unit the text uses for wine and for olive oil and for the capacity of the great bronze basin in Solomon's temple. It is the ordinary spelling and by far the more common one, running through Kings, Chronicles, Isaiah and Ezekiel. The very same measure also turns up in the Aramaic chapters of Ezra, where the plural is spelled with an Aramaic ending, in the decree that caps how much wine and oil may be issued for the temple. That Aramaic form names the identical unit, not a smaller or larger one; only the language differs.

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All attested forms of בַּת

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בַּתִּין

Ezr 7:22, Ezr 7:22

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