Cab
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
(2): (n.) A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
(3): (n.) A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary [2]
An Hebrew measure, containing about three pints in wine measure, and two pints of corn measure. This serves to explain the miseries of the famine in Samaria, when the fourth part of a cab of doves dung sold for five pieces of silver. ( 2 Kings 6:25)
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [3]
A Hebrew measure, the sixth part of a seah, and the eighteenth part of an ephah. A cab contained three pints and one third, of our wine measure, or two pints and five sixths, of our corn measure, 2 Kings 6:25 .
King James Dictionary [4]
CAB, n. An oriental dry measure, being the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth of an ephah containing two pints and five sixths English and American corn measure.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [5]
Cab. See Measures .
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary [6]
or KAB, a Hebrew measure, containing three pints one third of our wine measure, or two pints five sixths of our corn measure.
People's Dictionary of the Bible [7]
Cab. 2 Kings 6:25. See Measures.
Easton's Bible Dictionary [8]
2 Kings 6:25
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [9]
CAB . See Weights and Measures.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [10]
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [11]
( קִב , Kab, A Hollow vessel; Sept. Κάβος ), a measure for things dry, mentioned in 2 Kings 6:25. The rabbins make it the sixth part of a Seah (q.v.) or Satum , and the eighteenth part of an ephah. This would be nearly Two Quarts English measure. (See Measure).
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature [12]
Cab, a measure mentioned in 2 Kings 6:25. The Rabbins make it the sixth part of a seah or satum, and the eighteenth part of an ephah. In that case a cab contained 3 1/3 pints of our wine measure, or 2 5/6 pints of our corn measure.
References
- ↑ Cab from Webster's Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from King James Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from People's Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Cab from Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Cab from Morrish Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Cab from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
- ↑ Cab from Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature
