Forms: (4 batus), 6 bat, batte, 6– bath. [a. Heb. bath: the earlier forms represented L. batus, Gr. βάτος of the Vulgate and Septuagint.] A Hebrew liquid-measure, containing about six and a half gallons.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. cxxviii. (1495), 932. Batus is in fletynge thynges as cours, and Ephi in drye thynges.
1535. Coverdale, Ezek. xlv. 14. The oyle shal be measured with the Bat … Ten Battes make one Homer.
1581. Marbeck, Bk. of Notes, 99. Bath & Epha seeme to be both one measure.
1611. Bible, Isa. v. 10. Ten acres of Vineyard shall yeeld one Bath.
1623. Cockeram, Bath, ten pottles in liquor.
