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
This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you -- fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!
Genesis 34:12
You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I'll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!"
Exodus 22:17
If her father refuses to give her to him, he must pay money for the bride price of virgins.
1 Samuel 18:25
Saul replied, "Here is what you should say to David: 'There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.'" (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)
An homer
Leviticus 27:16
"'If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.
Isaiah 5:10
Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel."
Ezekiel 45:11
The dry and liquid measures will be the same, the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.