Original Word: σάτον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: saton
Phonetic Spelling: (sat'-on)
Short Definition: nearly three English gallons
Definition: a large measure equal to nearly three English gallons.

4568 sáton – "a large measure equivalent to nearly three English gallons" (Souter); the measure for grain, "about a peck and a half or somewhat less than one-half bushel (a bushel consists of four pecks) or approximately twelve liters in the metric system" (L & N, 1, 81.23).

STRONGS NT 4568: σάτον

σάτον (Hebrew כְאָה, Chaldean כָאתָא, Syriac )t)S []), σατου, τό, a kind of dry measure, a modius and a half (equivalent to about a peck and a half (cf. μόδιος)) (Josephus, Antiquities 9, 4, 5 ἰσχύει δέ τό σάτον μόδιον, καί ἥμισυ ἰταλικον; cf. Genesis 18:6 (see Aq. and Symm.); Judges 6:19): Matthew 13:33; Luke 13:21, (in both examples A. V. 'three measures of meal' i. e. the common quantity for 'a baking' (cf. Genesis 18:6; Judges 6:19; 1 Samuel 1:24)).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

measure.

Of Hebrew origin (c'ah); a certain measure for things dry -- measure.

see HEBREW c'ah

Forms and Transliterations

σατα σάτα σατράπαι σατράπαις σατράπας σατραπείαι σατραπειαίς σατραπειάς σατραπειών σατραπών σατράπων sata sáta

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