Behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat,.... Meaning, not what was beaten out of the husk with the flail, as some; nor bruised or half broke for pottage, as others; but ground into flour, as R.
Jonah interprets it; or rather, perhaps, it should be rendered "food" that is, for his household, as in 1Ki 5:11, and the hire of these servants is proposed to be given in this way, because wheat was scarce with the Tyrians, and they were obliged to have it from the Jews, Ac 12:20,and twenty thousand measures of barley; the measures of both these were the cor, of which see 1Ki 5:11,and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil; which measure was the tenth part of a "cor".
According to the Ethiopians, a man might consume four of these measures in the space of a month . Apud Kimchium in loc. So Kimchi, tkm "pro" tlkm "ineuria librariorum", Schindler, Lex. Pentaglott. col.
73. Ludolf. Lexic. Ethiop. p.