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EPHA

Volume 17 · 56 words · 1810 Edition

or Ephah, in Jewish antiquity, a measure for things dry, equal to 3 pecks and 3 pints.

EPHEBÆUM, in antiquity, the place where the ephesi or youth exercised; or, as some say, where those who designed to exercise met, and agreed what kind of exercise they should contend in, and what should be the victor's reward.