Albert Barnes Commentary Luke 16:7

"Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He saith unto him, Take thy bond, and write fourscore." — Luke 16:7 (ASV)

Measures of wheat. The measure mentioned here—the kor, or homer—contained, according to Dr. Arbuthnot's tables, about 32 pecks, or 8 bushels; or, according to the marginal note, about 14 bushels and a pottle. A pottle is 4 pints. The Hebrew kor—or homer—was equal to 10 baths or 70 gallons, and the actual amount of the measure, according to this, was approximately 8 gallons. However, Robinson (Lexicon) supposes that the bath was 11 1/2 gallons, and the kor or homer 14.45 bushels. The amount is not material to the proper understanding of the parable.

Fourscore. Eighty.