BDB5466

סְאָה noun feminine (see below) se'ah, a measure of flour, grain, etc. (√ unknown; perhaps foreign word; Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic סְאָה, סָאתָא, [untranscribed source text 3501], [untranscribed source text 3502], [untranscribed source text 3503] (Greek σάτον, Lewy^{Fremdwörter 116 f} )); — absolute סְאָהֿ 2Kgs 7:1; 2Kgs 7:16, וּסֳאָהֿ 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., Albr^{ZAW xvi (1896), 95}); — סַאסְּאָה Isa 27:8 see סאסא . — On size of se'ah = 1/3 ephah, = 12.148 litres (= 10.696 qts.), see Now^{Archaeology i. 203} Benz^{Archaeology 183}.