STRONGS NUMBER H6894


Word Summary
qab: kab (a measure of capacity)
Original Word: קַב
Transliteration: qab
Phonetic Spelling: (kab)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: kab (a measure of capacity)
Meaning: a hollow, vessel, a, measure
Strong's Concordance
cab

From qabab; a hollow, i.e. Vessel used as a (dry) measure -- cab.

see HEBREW qabab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H6894. qab

קַבnoun [masculine] kab (Late Hebrew id.; Syriac ; Talmud קַבָא‎); — a measure of capacity, Biblical Hebrew only dry measure, הַקַּב רֹבַע2 Kings 6:25 4-Jankab; on size of קַב‎ = 4 לֹג‎ = 1/6 סְאָה‎ = 1/6 הִין‎ = approximately 2 litres see NowArchaeology i. 202 f. BenzArchaeology 182.