Luke 16:7

“Then said he to another, and how much owest thou? etc.] To my Lord, as before: and he said, an hundred measures of wheat, or “cors of wheat”; the same with “homers”, (<264514>Ezekiel 45:14) the same quantity as in (<150722>Ezra 7:22) where, as here, they are called an hundred measures of wheat; and were, as Jarchi on the place observes, twjnml, “for the meal, or flour offerings”: according to the above writer f469, this measure held five bushels, and five gallons; so that the whole was five hundred, sixty bushels, and a half: some make the measure to hold eight bushels and a half; and others, fourteen bushels and a pottle, which greatly increases the quantity. And he said unto him, take thy…”

“Measures of wheat - The measure here mentioned - the “kor,” or homer - contained, according to the tables of Dr. Arbuthnot, about 32 pecks, or 8 bushels; or, according to the marginal note, about 14 bushels and a “pottle.” A “pottle” is 4 pints. The Hebrew “kor,” כר kor, or “homer,” חמר chomer, was equal to 10 baths or 70 gallons, and the actual amount of the measure, according to this, was not far from 8 gallons. Robinson, Lexicon), however, supposes that the bath was 11 12 gallons, and the kor or homer 14 to 45 bushels. The amount is not material to the proper understanding of the parable. Fourscore - Eighty. return to 'Top of Page'”

“16:7 1,000 bushels . . . 800 bushels: The size of the cor—a standard dry measure—is not known with certainty.”

“An hundred: Luk 20:9, Luk 20:12; Sol 8:11, Sol 8:12 measures: "The word here interpreted a measure, in the original containeth about fourteen bushels and a pottle. Gr. Luke 16:8”