BUSHEL.See Weights and Measures.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Bushel. See Weights and Measures.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
boosh?el (μόδιος, módios): A dry measure containing about a peck, but as it is used in the New Testament (Mat_5:15; Mar_4:21; Luk_11:33) it does not refer to capacity but is used only to indicate a covering to conceal the light.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bushel is used in the Authorized Version to express a measure of about a peck.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Mat_5:15 (b) A type of business affairs under which some Christians bury their testimony. (See also Luk_11:33).
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
press 1957.
Bushel
is used in the Auth. Vers. to express the Greek μόδιος, Latin modius, a Roman measure for dry articles, equal to one sixth of the Attic medimnus (see Smith's Dict. of Class. Antiq. s.v. Modius), and containing 1 gall. 7,8576 pints, or nearly one peck English measure (Mat_5:15; Mar_4:21; Luk_11:33). SEE MEASURE.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.