[Heb. kōr lit. ‘round vessel,’ adapted by LXX. as κόρος, Vulgate corus, chorus, whence in Wyclif (also chore, choore) and Rhemish.] A Hebrew and Phœnician measure of capacity, the same that was in earlier times called the homer, containing ten ephahs or baths = about 91/2 bushels (liquid) or 8 bushels (dry measure).
1388. Wyclif, Luke xvi. 7. An hundrid coris [1382 mesuris] of whete.
1609. Bible (Douay), Ezek. xlv. 11. That the bat may take the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core.
1611. Bible, ibid. 14. Ye shall offer the tenth part of a Bath out of the Cor, which is an Homer of ten Baths.
1876. trans. Keil’s Ezek., II. 330–1. The cor is not mentioned in the preceding words…, nor does it occur in the Mosaic law. It is another name for the homer, which is met with for the first time in the writings of the captivity.
