Hebrew חֹמֶר. Literally "a donkey-load". Also called Cor, Kor.
The largest dry measure: ten ephahs, about what a donkey can carry.
Volume (dry)
200–240 L (52.8–63.4 gal).
Defined as 10 ephahs.
Inherits the disagreement over the ephah.
A homer is a donkey-load, and its name shares a root with the word for the animal. It is the unit large quantities are counted in — the quail that fell in the wilderness, the seed a field swallows, the grain a field returns. Confusingly it is not the omer, which is a hundredth of it.
Each basket holds its measure at the middle of the range above. The ephah is the anchor: a seah is a third of it, an omer a tenth and a cab an eighteenth, and ten ephahs make a homer, the word for a donkey’s load. An omer of manna, a day’s food for one person (Exodus 16:16), is about a 2-litre bottle’s worth.