US Cups to Baths (biblical) (cup to bath)
1 US cup equals 0.01075401075 baths (biblical) exactly.
How to convert US cups to baths (biblical)
To convert US cups to baths (biblical), multiply the number of US cups by 0.01075401075. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply baths (biblical) by 92.98856243 (rounded).
baths (biblical) = US cups × 0.01075401075
Example: 10 US cups = 0.1075401075 baths (biblical).
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
US Cup (cup)
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
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
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