Reference: Basket
Easton
There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: (1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Ge 40:16; Ex 29:3,23; Le 8:2,26,31; Nu 6:15,17,19). Sometimes baskets were made of twigs peeled; their manufacture was a recognized trade among the Hebrews.
(2.) That used (Heb. salsilloth') in gathering grapes (Jer 6:9).
(3.) That in which the first fruits of the harvest were presented, Heb. tene, (De 26:2,4). It was also used for household purposes. In form it tapered downwards like that called corbis by the Romans.
(4.) A basket (Heb. kelub) having a lid, resembling a bird-cage. It was made of leaves or rushes. The name is also applied to fruit-baskets (Am 8:1-2).
(5.) A basket (Heb. dud) for carrying figs (Jer 24:2), also clay to the brick-yard (R.V., Ps 81:6), and bulky articles (2Ki 10:7). This word is also rendered in the Authorized Version "kettle" (1Sa 2:14), "caldron" (2Ch 35:13), "seething-pot" (Job 41:20).
In the New Testament mention is made of the basket (Gr. kophinos, small "wicker-basket") for the "fragments" in the miracle recorded Mr 6:43, and in that recorded Mt 15:37 (Gr. spuris, large "rope-basket"); also of the basket in which Paul escaped (Ac 9:25, Gr. spuris; 2Co 11:33, Gr. sargane, "basket of plaited cords").
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.
put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams.
take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread [made] with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord;
"Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread [made] with oil, and one wafer, and placed [them] on the fat portions and the right thigh.
Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket for the ordination offering as I commanded: Aaron and his sons are to eat it.
along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
He will also offer the ram as a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord, together with the basket of unleavened bread. Then the priest will offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.
The priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put [them] into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head.
you must take some of the first of all the soil's produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put [it] in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.
"Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
and plunge it into the container or kettle or caldron or cooking pot. The priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is the way they treated all the Israelites who came there to Shiloh.
When the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered all 70, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
They roasted the Passover [lambs] with fire according to regulation. They boiled the holy [sacrifices] in pots, in kettles, and in bowls; and they quickly brought [them] to the lay people.
Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or [burning] reeds.
"I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from [carrying] the basket.
This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Glean as thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.
One basket [contained] very good figs, like early figs, but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they were inedible.
The Lord God showed me this: A basket of summer fruit. He asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A basket of summer fruit." The Lord said to me, "The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces-seven large baskets full.
Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.
but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through [an opening in] the wall.
so I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
Fausets
Ge 40:16; "I had three white (margin 'full of holes,' i.e. of open work, or rather 'baskets of white bread') baskets on my head." The Bible accurately represents Egyptian custom (Herodotus, 2:35), whereby men carried burdens on the head, women on the shoulders. In the distinct miracles of feeding the 5,000 and the 4,000 the KJV uses the stone term "baskets" for distinct Greek words. In Mt 14:20; Mr 6:43; Lu 9:17; Joh 6:13, the disciples took up twelve kophinoi of fragments at the feeding of the 5,000. In feeding the 4,000 with seven loaves recorded by two evangelists, the disciples took up seven spurides (Mt 15:37; Mr 8:8). Now kofinoi is always used by the evangelists when the miracle of the 5,000 is spoken of, spurides when that of the 4,000 is spoken of.
Thus also in referring back to the miracle (Mt 16:9-10) Jesus says: "Do ye not ... remember the five loaves of the 5,000, and how many kofinoi) ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the 4,000, and how many spurides) ye took up?" That the spurides) were of large size appears from Paul's having been let down in one from the wall (Ac 9:25). The kofinoi being twelve probably answers to the twelve disciples, a provision basket for each, and so are likely to have been smaller. The accurate distinction in the use of the terms so invariably made in the record of the miracles marks both events as real and distinct, not, as rationalists have guessed, different versions of one miracle.
The coincidence is so undesigned that it escaped our translators altogether; it therefore can only be the result of genuineness and truth in the different evangelists' accounts. In traveling through Samaria or Gentile regions the Jews used kofinoi, not to be defiled by eating Gentile unclean foods. Smith's Bible Dictionary wrongly makes the kofinos larger than the spuris.
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces-seven large baskets full.
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces-seven large baskets full.
Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?
Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected? Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?
Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?
Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.
Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.
They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets of leftover pieces.
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets of leftover pieces.
So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.
So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.
but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through [an opening in] the wall.
but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through [an opening in] the wall.
Hastings
The names of a round score of baskets in use in NT times are known from the Mishna (see Krengel, Das Hausger
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.
put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams.
you must take some of the first of all the soil's produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put [it] in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from a half bushel of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to Him under the oak.
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord.
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces-seven large baskets full.
They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through [an opening in] the wall.
Morish
Various Hebrew words are translated 'basket,' and doubtless the size, shape and strength varied according to the purpose for which they were intended. In the N.T. there are three Greek words used: ???????, 'a hamper,' in which Paul was let down by the wall, 2Co 11:33, though for the same occurrence another word is used in Ac 9:25, ??????, which also signifies 'a hamper,' and is used for the seven baskets of fragments remaining after the four thousand were fed. Mt 15:37; 16:10; Mr 8:8,Mr 8:20. When the five thousand were fed there were twelve baskets of fragments, but it was then the ???????, 'a hand basket.' Mt 14:20; 16:9; Mr 6:43; 8:19; Lu 9:17; Joh 6:13. The two perfect numbers seven and twelve show the inexhaustible supply the Lord furnishes when His purpose is to bless His own.
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Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces-seven large baskets full.
Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected? Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?
Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.
They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?" "Twelve," they told Him. "When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?" "Seven," they said.
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets of leftover pieces.
So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.
but his disciples took him by night and lowered him in a large basket through [an opening in] the wall.
so I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his hands.
Smith
Basket.
The Hebrew terms used in the description of this article are as follows: (1) Sal, so called from the twigs of which it was originally made, specially used for holding bread.
ff.
Ex 29:3,23; Le 8:2,26,31; Nu 6:15,17,19
(2) Salsilloth, a word of kindred origin, applied to the basket used in gathering grapes.
(3) Tene, in which the first-fruits of the harvest were presented.
De 26:2,4
(4) Celub, so called from its similarity to a bird-cage. (5) Dud, used for carrying fruit,
as well as on a larger scale for carrying clay to the brick-yard,
(pots, Authorized Version), or for holding bulky articles.
In the New Testament baskets are described under three different terms.
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When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, "I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.
put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams.
take one loaf of bread, one cake of bread [made] with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the Lord;
"Take Aaron, his sons with him, the garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
From the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread [made] with oil, and one wafer, and placed [them] on the fat portions and the right thigh.
Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance to the tent of meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket for the ordination offering as I commanded: Aaron and his sons are to eat it.
along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
He will also offer the ram as a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord, together with the basket of unleavened bread. Then the priest will offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.
The priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put [them] into the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head.
you must take some of the first of all the soil's produce that you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you and put [it] in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.
"Then the priest will take the container from your hand and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.
When the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered all 70, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
"I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from [carrying] the basket.
This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Glean as thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.
After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon, the Lord showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the Lord. One basket [contained] very good figs, like early figs, but the other basket contained very bad figs, so bad they were inedible.