Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley:
An homer
Bible References
I bought
Genesis 31:41
These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
Genesis 34:12
Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife."
Exodus 22:17
If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'"Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
An homer
Leviticus 27:16
"If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the land that is his possession, then the valuation shall be in proportion to its seed. A homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Isaiah 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."
Ezekiel 45:11
The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, the bath containing one tenth of a homer, and the ephah one tenth of a homer; the homer shall be the standard measure.