ἀσσαρῶν <Semitic; Roman period>
👉 ἀσσαρῶν, gen. -ῶνος, or ἀσσάρων, gen. -ωνος, m. – ‘a Jewish measure of capacity (= 1 omer = 1 tenth of ephah, i.e. ~ 4 litres)’ (Jos., AJ 3.29, 3.30, 3.233 etc.), indecl. ἀσσάρων (Jos., AJ 3.142), also ἐσσάρων, gen. -ωνος (Jos., AJ 8.92); according to Jos., AJ 3.142, the assarōn is equal to 7 Attic kotylai, i.e. 1.91 litres (1 kotylē = 0.273 litres). Cf. γομορ 1.
⚠ Cf. Jos., AJ 3.142: (...) δύο ἀσσάρων, ὃ μέτρον ῾Εβραίων ἑπτὰ κοτύλας ᾿Αττικὰς ἔχει. – “(...) 2 assarōn, which measure of the Hebrews has (a capacity of) 7 kotylai”.
🅔 A Hebrew word – Biblical Hebrew ʿiśśārôn ‘one tenth (of an ephah)’; cf. Jewish Aramic ʿeśrôn ‘id.’, Syriac ʿesron ‘tenth part, grain measure’.
📖 Data: DCH: VI, 612f.; DJPA: 422; HALOT: 895; SL: 1121. Ref.: Norton 2011: 71.