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• חֹמֶר חֹמֶר, , חֹמֶר
• לֵתֶךְ

(לֶמֶר, cho'mer, a heap, as in Exodus 8:14), a Hebrew measure of capacity for things dry, containing. ten baths (Leviticus 27:16; Numbers 11:32; Ezekiel 45:11; Ezekiel 45:13-14). In later writers it is usually termed a COR. (See MEASURE).

The le'thek (לֶתֶךְ, vessel for pouring; Sept. ἡμίκορος, Vulg. corus dimidius, English. Vers. "half a homer") was a measure for grain of half the capacity of the homer or cor, as seems probable from the only passage where it is mentioned (Hosea 3:3). See Stud. u. Krit. 1846, 1, 123.