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EPHA

Volume 9 · 56 words · 1842 Edition

or Ephah, in Jewish antiquity, a dry measure, equal to three pecks and three pints.

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