Baths (biblical) to US Fluid Ounces (bath to fl oz)
1 bath (biblical) equals 743.9084994 US fluid ounces (rounded).
How to convert baths (biblical) to US fluid ounces
To convert baths (biblical) to US fluid ounces, multiply the number of baths (biblical) by 743.9084994. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US fluid ounces by 0.001344251344 (rounded).
US fluid ounces = baths (biblical) × 743.9084994
Example: 10 baths (biblical) = 7,439.084994 US fluid ounces.
Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.
Approximate value. Standards for the bath (biblical) varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.
About these units
Bath (biblical) (bath)
About 22 L, the same size as the dry ephah, estimated from excavated jars. Values differ between sources.
Bath is the English form of the Hebrew word bat, the liquid measure of ancient Israel. It served for oil, wine and water, and the prophet Ezekiel gives its place in the system: the bath and the dry ephah were equal, and each was a tenth of a homer. Later rabbinic tables count it as 72 log, or six hin, which fixes its rank among the smaller liquid units.
Its absolute size rests on archaeology rather than on any written definition. Herbert May studied storage jars from Tell Beit Mirsim marked bath and royal bath, and arrived at roughly 22 litres, the figure used here. Other reconstructions run higher, and sources that build on later Talmudic eggs and fingers produce quite different results, so the value should be read as an estimate with a wide margin. In modern terms a bath is about the contents of a 20 litre water cooler bottle.
1 bath (biblical) = 22 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Bath (unit); Wikipedia: Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
US Fluid Ounce (fl oz)
One 128th of a US gallon, 29.5735 mL. Not the same as the weight ounce, and about 4% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.
Fluid ounce began as an attempt to link volume to weight: the volume occupied by one ounce of some substance, such as wine in England or water in Scotland. Definitions varied by region and by liquid. When Britain defined its imperial gallon in 1824 as the space of ten pounds of water, the imperial fluid ounce came out so that an ounce of water weighs about one avoirdupois ounce. The US fluid ounce followed a different path and comes from the older wine gallon.
The US fluid ounce is exactly 1/128 of a US gallon, 29.5735295625 milliliters, about 4 percent bigger than the imperial one at 28.4130625 milliliters. American nutrition labels use yet another figure, treating one fluid ounce as 30 milliliters, a convenient rounding for serving sizes. The name is a trap, because a fluid ounce measures space while a weight ounce measures mass. A US fluid ounce of water weighs a bit more than an ounce of weight, while a fluid ounce of honey weighs considerably more.
1 US fluid ounce = 0.02957352956 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Fluid ounce; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures
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