sheaf. ʿōmer. The LXX renders dragma ‘handful’ (also Philo, Dream 2.75). Others render “armful”—that is, whatever is swathed with a sickle and swooped under the arm (Dalman 1933: 3.18, 46–52, 48–60, 62–66; Ginsberg 1979–80: 142). The former is preferable, to judge by an Egyptian painting. Either meaning is attested in Deut 24:19; Job 24:10; Ruth 2:7, 15. The rabbis, however, on the basis of Exod 16:16–32, 36, claim that the ʿōmer is a specific dry measure, namely, one-tenth of an ephah of flour