Ruth 3:15

MLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ And he said, Give me the cloak that is upon you and hold it. And she held it and he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her and he went into the city.

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vail. or sheet, or apron.The word {mitpachath} has been variously rendered. The LXX. translate it [ ,] an apron, and Vulgate, {pallium,} a cloak. By the circumstances of the story, it must have been of a considerable size; and accordingly Dr. Shaw thinks it was no other than the {hyke,} the finer sort of which, such as are still worn by ladies and persons of distinction among the Arabs, he takes to answer to the [ ,] or robe, of the ancient Greeks.
he measured.
Isaiah 32:8; Galatians 6:10
six measures.The quantity of this barley is uncertain. The Targum renders it, {shith sein,} "six {seahs."} A {seah} contained about two gallons and a half, six of which must have been a very heavy load for a woman, and so the Targumist thought, for he adds, "And she received strength from the Lord to carry it."