What Does “Ephah” Mean in the Bible?
Measure
A measure for grain, like a big bucket: about twenty-two liters, almost six gallons.
Where it appears in the Bible
Ruth 2:17
What the Bible says
Ruth 2:17
She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Ruth 2:17; Exodus 16:36