5429 - seah

Strong's Concordance

Original word: סְאָה־
Transliteration: seah
Definition (short): measures
Definition (full): a seah, certain measure, for, grain

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin: of uncertain derivation
Definition: seah (a measure of flour or grain)
NASB Translation: measure (3), measures (6).
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From an unused root meaning to define; a seah, or certain measure (as determinative) for grain -- measure.
KJV: And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
NASB: So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, "Quickly, prepare three measures of fine flour, knead it and make bread cakes."
KJV: Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.
NASB: Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
KJV: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
NASB: So with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he made a trench around the altar, large enough to hold two measures of seed.
KJV: Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
NASB: Then Elisha said, "Listen to the word of the LORD; thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'"