Symbolic numbers
Human-made Things in the Bible
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The treatment that follows does not pretend to be comprehensive nor even to take into consideration variations in values from one time period to another and from one location to another. The values suggested, however, should be sufficient to aid a translator to produce renderings that will give the readers a reasonable idea of size and volume.
In the discussions that follow, weights and measures are generally given in ascending order, from small to large. These discussions should be used together with the tables that appear below.
Also in Introduction
Sources
Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema