]In Biblical times, a unit of liquid capacity, about 230 liters. It had the same volume as the homer, a dry measure. In the Bible (Ezekiel 45:14) it is translated “cor,” but in the King James version, in 1 Kings 5:11 the kor is translated “measure.”
In Talmudic measures, the kor is a measure of dry capacity. 
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