סְאָה

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, Lewy^{Fremdwörter 116 f})); — absolute סְאָהֿ 2 Kong 7,1; 2 Kong 7,16, וּסֳאָהֿ v2 Kong 7,18 (Baer Ginsb compare Ges^{«GKC:10h»§ 10h}); dual סָאתַיִם 1 Kong 18,32 + 3 t.; plural סְאִים 1 Mos 18,6; 1 Sam 25,18 — always with appositive of thing measured, 1 Mos 18,6 (J), 1 Sam 25,18; 1 Kong 18,32; 2 Kong 7,1 (twice in verse); 2 Kong 7,16 (twice in verse); 2 Kong 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 Es 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}.