σάτον
sáton · G4568 · Greek · 2 occurrences
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Meanings
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saton, measure, batch
The Hebrew measure for grain, about a peck and a half or somewhat less than one-half bushel (a bushel consists of four pecks) or approximately twelve liters in the metric system
ExamplesMatthew 13:33 He spoke another parable to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened.”
Luke 13:21 “It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἄλευρονwheat flour 2
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- τρεῖςthree 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 4
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- μέτρον métron · G3358 · measure, sparingly, in a limited way
- A general Greek term for 'measure' or 'measurement' that can denote units of dry or liquid capacity; while σάτον is a specific standardized measure, μέτρον is the broader generic term for any measuring unit.
- χοῖνιξ choînix · G5518 · quart
- Another specific Greek dry measure, smaller than a σάτον (approximately 1 liter vs. 13 liters), but both are standardized units for measuring dry goods like grain; they belong to the same semantic field of dry-measure terminology.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Saton, measure, batch81.23
- The noun names a unit of dry measure for grain or flour. Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to leaven “which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened” (Matthew 13:33).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Hebrew כְאָה, Chaldean כָאתָא, Syriac )t)S []), σατου, τό, a kind of dry measure, a…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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