Homers to US Fluid Ounces (homer to fl oz)

1 homer equals 7,439.084994 US fluid ounces (rounded).

1 homer = 7,439.084994 US fluid ounces

How to convert homers to US fluid ounces

To convert homers to US fluid ounces, multiply the number of homers by 7,439.084994. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US fluid ounces by 0.0001344251344 (rounded).

US fluid ounces = homers × 7,439.084994

Example: 10 homers = 74,390.84994 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 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 Fluid Ounce (fl oz)

US customaryCurrent unit

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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