EPHI, an hollow measure in use among the Hebrews, which contained three pecks and three pints. A Bath is the same as an Ephi, or Ephah.1
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Translators’ note. Ephah was a Mea- sure of things dry, as of barley, Ruth ii. and meal, Judges vi. and Numb. v. and was of the same capacity with the Bath in liquids. It contained three Sata or Seahs. The Chaldaic paraphrase renders the Ephah 3 Seahs, the ancient version 3 Modii, Ruth ii. Joseph. lib. 9. cap. 2. makes the Seah equal to 1½ Italick Italick Modius, the Sesquimodius containing 24 Sextarii, which multiplied by 3, makes 72, the measure of the Ephah assign’d by him. The LXX render Ephah variously, sometimes by the word itself, Οἰφὶ or Οἰφὶ, Levit. v. Numbers xv. and xviii. Judges vi. Ruth ii. 1 Samuel i. and xxv. Sometimes by the word πέμμα, Ezek. xlv. So the Latin Version has Ephah variously translated: as by Ephi, a corruption of Ephah; and by Modius, Levit. xix. and sometimes it is rendered 3 Modii, Esai. v. Ruth ii. Sometimes it is confounded with Satum or Seah: It is rendered Amphora by the old version, Zachar. v. Arbuthnot’s Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures, &c. p. 101. ↩