Lexical Summary kor: kor (a measure) Original Word: כֹּרTransliteration: kor Phonetic Spelling: (kore) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: kor (a measure) Meaning: a deep round vessel, a cor, a dry measure Strong's Concordance cor, measure From the same as kuwr; properly, a deep round vessel, i.e. (specifically) a cor or measure for things dry -- cor, measure. Aramaic the same. see HEBREW kuwr Brown-Driver-Briggs H3734. kor כֹּר noun [masculine] kor, a measure (usually dry), = חֹמֶר (Ezekiel 45:14 compare 45:11) (Late Hebrew כּוֺר, Aramaic כּוֺרָא, hence, as loan-words, Greek κόρος, Arabic Frä207; √ dubious; כרה, LagOr. ii. 30, compare IdBN 40, 156; כרר, NöZMG 1886, xi, 734; DlProl. 113 compare Assyrian kâry, and derived from כור (but see now kâru DlHWB 349)); — ׳כ סֹלֶת 1 Kings 5:2; ׳כ קָ֑מַח v.4:2; of חִטִּים v.1 Kings 5:25 a; plural כֹּרִים of ׳ח and שְׂעֹרִים2 Chronicles 2:9 (twice in verse); 27:5; הַכֹּר as liquid measure (of oil) Ezekiel 45:14. See further BenzArchaeology 183 ff. NowArchaeology i. 203, and, on capacity, see III. חֹמֶר f. above; in 1 Kings 5:25 b read שֶׁמֶן בַּת for שׁ ׳כֹּר ᵑ0 (compare ᵐ5. and 2 Chronicles 2:9). [כּוֺר] noun [masculine] kôr, a measure of wheat (Biblical Hebrew כֹּר); — plural absolute כּוֺרִין Ezra 7:22. |
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