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- Egyptian · derived fromjpt“oipe, a dry measure of volume about 19.2 liters”
- Hebrew · borrowed fromאֵיפָה
- English todayephah
From Hebrew אֵיפָה (eifá), from Egyptian jpt (“oipe, a dry measure of volume about 19.2 liters”). Doublet of oipe.
Words from the same roots
Egyptianjpt all →
oipe
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.