ephah
noun
ephah is a noun meaning “A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-P-H-A-H, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ephah is ephahs.
What does ephah mean?
noun
- 1
A former Hebrew unit of dry volume (about 23 L).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of ephah
- ephahs plural
- epha
- ephi
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ephah?
Ephah appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does ephah come from?
From Hebrew אֵיפָה (eifá), from Egyptian jpt (“oipe, a dry measure of volume about 19.2 liters”). Doublet of oipe.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).