Ruth 3:15

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15 H559 He said, H3051 "Bring H4304 the mantle H270 that is on you, and hold H270 it." She held H4058 it; and he measured H8337 six H8184 measures of barley, H7896 and laid H935 it on her; and he went H5892 into the city.

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vail. or sheet, or apron.The word {mitpachath} has been variously rendered. The LXX. translate it [ ,] an apron, and Vulgate, {pallium,} a cloak. By the circumstances of the story, it must have been of a considerable size; and accordingly Dr. Shaw thinks it was no other than the {hyke,} the finer sort of which, such as are still worn by ladies and persons of distinction among the Arabs, he takes to answer to the [ ,] or robe, of the ancient Greeks.
he measured.
Isaiah 32:8; Galatians 6:10
six measures.The quantity of this barley is uncertain. The Targum renders it, {shith sein,} "six {seahs."} A {seah} contained about two gallons and a half, six of which must have been a very heavy load for a woman, and so the Targumist thought, for he adds, "And she received strength from the Lord to carry it."