Reference: Basin
Easton
or Bason.
(1.) A trough or laver (Heb. aggan') for washing (Ex 24:6); rendered also "goblet" (Song 7:2) and "cups" (Isa 22:24).
(2.) A covered dish or urn (Heb. k'for) among the vessels of the temple (1Ch 28:17; Ezr 1:10; 8:27).
(3.) A vase (Heb. mizrak) from which to sprinkle anything. A metallic vessel; sometimes rendered "bowl" (Am 6:6; Zec 9:15). The vessels of the tabernacle were of brass (Ex 27:3), while those of the temple were of gold (2Ch 4:8).
(4.) A utensil (Heb. saph) for holding the blood of the victims (Ex 12:22); also a basin for domestic purposes (2Sa 17:28).
The various vessels spoken of by the names "basin, bowl, charger, cup, and dish," cannot now be accurately distinguished.
The basin in which our Lord washed the disciples' feet (Joh 13:5) must have been larger and deeper than the hand-basin.
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Then shall ye take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and strike the upper beam and the two door-posts, with the blood which is in the basin, - and, ye, shall not go forth any man out of the entrance of his house, until morning,
Then took Moses half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood, dashed he over the altar:
And thou shalt make its pans for removing its ashes, and its shovels and its sprinkling bowls, and its flesh-hooks and its fire-pans, - all its vessels, shalt thou make of bronze.
brought, sleeping rugs, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat and barley, and meal and roasted corn, - and beans and lentils, and parched pulse;
and the fleshhooks and the bowls and the cups, pure gold, - and for the goblets of gold, by weight for each several goblet, and for the goblets of silver, by weight for each several goblet;
And he made ten tables, and placed in the temple, five, on the right hand, and, five, on the left, - and he made a hundred tossing bowls of gold.
bowls of gold, thirty, bowls of silver, of a secondary sort, four hundred and ten, - other utensils, a thousand.
and, bowls of gold, twenty, of a thousand drams, - and, utensils of fine bright bronze, two, precious as gold.
Thy navel, is a round bowl, may it not lack spiced wine! Thy body, a heap of wheat fenced about with lilies;
And they shall hang upon him all the weight of his fathers house - The offshoots and the side-twigs - All the small vessels, Both the cups and all the jugs
Who are quaffing bowls of wine, and, with the best of oils, anointing themselves, - and are not afflicted for the injury of Joseph: -
Yahweh of hosts, will throw a covering over them, so shall they eat, and trample underfoot sling-stones, and shall drink - shall shout as with wine, - and shall be filled like tossing-bowls, - like the corners of an altar.
Next, he poureth water into the wash-basin, and began to be washing the feet of the disciples, and to be wiping them with the linen cloth wherewith he was girded.
Smith
Basin.
Among the smaller vessels for the tabernacle or temple service, many must have been required to receive from the sacrificial victims the blood to be sprinkled for purification. The "basin" from which our Lord washed the disciples' feet was probably deeper and larger than the hand-basin for sprinkling.