Aramaic word · H1325

בַּת

batin

bath

A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?

Appears 2 times in 1 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.

What it means

1) bath, a unit of liquid measure, about 40 litres, equal to dry measure ephah

2) (TWOT) a liquid measure, about 22 litres

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Ezra · 2

  1. Ezra 7:22 בַּתִּ֣ין בַּתִּ֥ין baths

    up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred cors of wheat, a hundred baths of wine, a hundred baths of olive oil, and salt without limit.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.