I. CORUS, or Omer, a sort of Hebrew Measure, containing ten Baths, or seventy five Gallons and five Pints, as a Measure of things liquid, and thirty two Pecks and one Pint as a Measure for things dry1. When God sent Quails a second time into the Israelites Camp, every one gathered so large a quantity of them, that they who got least had ten Corus’s. Qui parum, decem coros.
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Translators’ note. The Corus or Omer was most commonly a measure for things dry, and the greatest that was used among the Jews. As of Barley, Lev. xxvii. of Wheat, 1 Kings iii. 2. 2 Chr. ii. 1. It contained, according to the Rabbins, ten Ephahs, or thirty Sata or Seabs. Corus is the most usual term in the historical Writers, and Omer or Chomer among the Prophets. Arbuthnot’s Tables, &c. p. 100. ↩