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CAPH

Volume 5 · 51 words · 1815 Edition

a Jewish measure of capacity for things, estimated by Kimchi at the 30th part of the log, by Arbuthnot at the 16th part of the hin or 32d of the seah, amounting to five-eighths of an English pint. The caph does not occur in Scripture as the name of any measure.