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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And take ye a bundle of hyssop, and dip in the blood that is upon the threshhold, and touch upon the lintel, and upon the two door-posts from the blood which is upon the threshhold and ye shall not come forth each from the door of his house till morning.
And Moses will take half of the blood, and put in basins; and half the blood he sprinkled upon the altar.
And make pots for its ashes, and its shovels, and its vessels, and its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: and for all its vessels, thou shalt make brass.
Beds and basins and vessels of earth, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched grain, and the bean and lentiles, and parched grain,
And the flesh-hooks, and the vases, and the bowls of pure gold, and for the cups of gold: by weight for cup and cup; and for the cups of silver by weight, for cup and cup.
And he will make ten tables and put in the temple, five from the right, and five from the left And he will make a hundred vases of gold.
Thirty goblets of gold, four hundred and ten goblets of silver, being different, a thousand other vessels.
And twenty goblets of gold to a thousand darics: and different vessels of good shining brass, desirable as gold.
Thy navel a bowl of roundness, it will not want mixed wine; thy belly a heap of wheat enclosed with lilies.
And they hung upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the sprouts, all the vessels of smallness, from the vessels of lavers and even to all the vessels of flasks.
Drinking wine in vases, and they will anoint with the chief of ointments: and they were not grieved for the breaking of Joseph.
Jehovah of armies shall protect over them; and they devoured and subdued with the stones of the sling; and they drank, they made a noise as from wine; and they filled as the vase, as the corners of the altar.
Then casts he water into a washing vessel, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe with the linen cloth with which 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.