What Does “Bushel (modius)” Mean in the Bible?
Measure
A Roman measure for grain: about nine liters, a little over two gallons.
Where it appears in the Bible
Ruth 2:17; 1 Samuel 1:24
What the Bible says
Ruth 2:17
She gleaned therefore in the field till evening: and beating out with a rod and threshing what she had gleaned, she found about the measure of an ephi of barley, that is, three bushels:
1 Samuel 1:24
And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet very young:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “modio”