3963. lethek
Strong's Concordance
lethek: a dry measure
Original Word: לֶ֫תֶך
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: lethek
Phonetic Spelling: (leh'-thek)
Short Definition: half
Brown-Driver-Briggs
לֶ֫תֶךְ noun [masculine] a barley-measure (Late Hebrew id., a corn-measure); only in שְׂעֹרִים ׳חֹמֶרשְֿׂעֹרִים וְל Hosea 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); ᵐ5 νέβελ οἴνου, for ׳שׂ ׳ל.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
half homer

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

Forms and Transliterations
וְלֵ֥תֶךְ ולתך veLetech wə·lê·ṯeḵ wəlêṯeḵ
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Strong's Hebrew 3963
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wə·lê·ṯeḵ — 1 Occ.

Hosea 3:2
HEB: וְחֹ֥מֶר שְׂעֹרִ֖ים וְלֵ֥תֶךְ שְׂעֹרִֽים׃
NAS: and a homer and a half of barley.
KJV: of barley, and an half homer of barley:
INT: homer of barley half of barley

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