Berean BlueApp preview

Albert Barnes on Luke 16:7

Notes on the New Testament. Browse this work.

Luke16:7

Measures of wheat. The measure here mentioned--the kor, or homer--contained, according to the tables of Dr. Arbuthnot, about 32 pecks, or 8 bushels; or, according to the marginal note, about 14 bushels and a pottle. A pottle is 4 pints. The Hebrew kor, ^hebrew^--or homer, ^hebrew^--was equal to 10 baths or 70 gallons, and the actual amount of the measure, according to this, was not far from 8 gallons. Robinson (Lex.), however, supposes that the bath was 11 1/2 gallons, and the kor or homer 14.45 bushels. The amount is not material to the proper understanding of the parable.

Fourscore. Eighty.

(2) "measures" = "The measure here indicated contained about fourteen bushels and a pottle"

Albert Barnes, Notes on the New Testament, Luke 16:7. Public domain.

Permanent link. Source edition.

Read Luke 16. Compare commentaries on this chapter.

Source and publication rights

Public domain. Public Domain. Source edition.

Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.