סְאָה noun feminine (see below) se'ah, a measure of flour, grain, etc. (√ unknown; perhaps foreign word; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic סְאָה, סָאתָא, , , (Greek σάτον, LewyFremdwörter 116 f)); — absolute סְאָהֿ [2Kgs 7:1]; [2Kgs 7:16], וּסֳאָהֿ v[2Kgs 7:18] (Baer Ginsb compare Ges«GKC:10h»§ 10h); dual סָאתַיִם [1Kgs 18:32] + 3 t.; plural סְאִים [Gen 18:6]; [1Sam 25:18] — always with appositive of thing measured, [Gen 18:6] (J), [1Sam 25:18]; [1Kgs 18:32]; [2Kgs 7:1] (twice in verse); [2Kgs 7:16] (twice in verse); [2Kgs 7:18] (twice in verse) (where apparently masculine, perhaps after analogy of other measures of capacity, הִין, תֹמֶר, כֹּר, etc., AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 95); — סַאסְּאָה [Isa 27:8] see סאסא. — On size of se'ah = 1/3 ephah, = 12.148 litres (= 10.696 qts.), see NowArchaeology i. 203 BenzArchaeology 183.
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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