Homers to US Cups (homer to cup)

1 homer equals 929.8856243 US cups (rounded).

1 homer = 929.8856243 US cups

How to convert homers to US cups

To convert homers to US cups, multiply the number of homers by 929.8856243. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US cups by 0.001075401075.

US cups = homers × 929.8856243

Example: 10 homers = 9,298.856243 US cups.

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 homer varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Homer (homer)

Biblical (Hebrew)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

Ten baths, roughly 220 L. The largest biblical dry and liquid measure.

Largest of the common biblical capacity measures, the homer, also called the kor, served for bulk grain and for liquids such as oil. Ezekiel states that the ephah and the bath were each a tenth of it, and rabbinic tables put it at ten ephah, or thirty seah. It is also easy to mix up with the omer, a unit more than a hundred times smaller despite the similar spelling in English.

Reference works usually quote about 220 litres, which follows directly from ten baths of 22 litres each. That figure is only as firm as the bath estimate beneath it, so a homer should be taken as a rough order of magnitude rather than an exact capacity. For comparison, 220 litres is a little more than a standard 200 litre oil drum, so a homer was in effect a large cask or a heavy load of grain.

1 homer = 220 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Homer (unit); Wikipedia: Bath (unit); Wikipedia: Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement

US Cup (cup)

US customaryCurrent unit

One sixteenth of a US gallon, 236.588 mL (8 US fluid ounces). The standard US recipe cup.

Cups began as household drinking vessels, not scientific units, which is why they remain the messiest measures in the kitchen. The US customary cup was defined by slicing up the gallon: half a pint, or eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 milliliters. Unlike the larger units, nobody ever fixed it to a physical vessel, so it exists only as a fraction of the gallon.

The customary cup is not the only American cup. For nutrition labels, US regulation defines a cup as exactly 240 milliliters, a rounder figure that sits slightly above the customary size. Packaged foods therefore list a serving in the legal cup while a measuring cup from the hardware store follows the customary definition. The gap is 3.4 milliliters, which hardly matters for soup but can matter in baking. Cup measures also hide the weight of dry ingredients, since a cup of sifted flour and a cup of packed flour differ substantially, which is why much of the world prefers grams.

1 US cup = 0.2365882365 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cup (unit); NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

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