STRONGS NUMBER H3963


Word Summary
lethek: a dry measure
Original Word: לֶתֶךְ
Transliteration: lethek
Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-thek)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a dry measure
Meaning: a measure for, things dry
Strong's Concordance
half homer

From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a measure for things dry -- half homer.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3963. lethek

לֶ֫תֶךְnoun [masculine] a barley-measure (Late Hebrew id., a corn-measure); only in וְל ׳חֹמֶרשְֿׂעֹרִים שְׂעֹרִיםHosea 3:2; according to ᵑ9‎ = 1/2 כֹּר‎ = 1/2 חֹמֶר‎ (q. v.), compare Mishna (LevyNHWB ii. 531), but this tradition is uncertain (compare NowArchaeology i. 203); ᵐ5νέβελ οἴνου, for ׳ל ׳שׂ‎.