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 the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and three baskets of white bread were on my head.
And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Jehovah.
Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a young bull for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread.
And he took one unleavened cake out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and on the right shoulder.
And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And eat it there with the bread in the basket of consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their food offerings and their drink offerings.
And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also his food offering and his drink offering.
And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazarite, after his separation has been shaved.
you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring of your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to place His name there.
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.
And he stuck it into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. All that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites that came there.
And it happened when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and killed them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent to him in Jezreel.
And they roasted the passover lamb with fire according to the Law. But the holy offerings they boiled in pots, and in kettles, and in pans, and carried to all the sons of the people.
Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a boiling pot fired by reeds.
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine; turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.
one basket had very good figs, like the first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, a basket of summer fruit! And He said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then Jehovah said to me, The end has come to My people Israel: I will never pass by them any more.
And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up seven lunch baskets full of the pieces that was left.
And they took up twelve hand baskets full of fragments, also from the fish.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a basket.
And I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and escaped their 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 the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and three baskets of white bread were on my head.
When the chief baker saw the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and three baskets of white bread were on my head.
And they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve hand baskets full from the fragments that remained.
And they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve hand baskets full from the fragments that remained.
And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up seven lunch baskets full of the pieces that was left.
And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up seven lunch baskets full of the pieces that was left.
Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up;
Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up; nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many lunch baskets you took up?
nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many lunch baskets you took up?
And they took up twelve hand baskets full of fragments, also from the fish.
And they took up twelve hand baskets full of fragments, also from the fish.
So they ate and were filled. And they took up over and above seven lunch baskets of fragments.
So they ate and were filled. And they took up over and above seven lunch baskets of fragments.
And they ate and were all filled. And there was taken up twelve hand baskets full of fragments of that left over to them.
And they ate and were all filled. And there was taken up twelve hand baskets full of fragments of that left over to them.
Therefore they gathered and filled twelve handbaskets with fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over to those who had eaten.
Therefore they gathered and filled twelve handbaskets with fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over to those who had eaten.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a basket.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a basket.
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 the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and three baskets of white bread were on my head.
And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring of your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to place His name there.
Your basket and your store shall be blessed.
And Gideon went in and made ready a kid and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour. He put the flesh in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to Him to the oak, and offered it.
Jehovah caused me to see, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah (after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon);
The Lord Jehovah made me see this: And behold, a basket of summer fruit!
And they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve hand baskets full from the fragments that remained.
And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up seven lunch baskets full of the pieces that was left.
So they ate and were filled. And they took up over and above seven lunch baskets of fragments.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a basket.
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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And they all ate and were filled. And they took up twelve hand baskets full from the fragments that remained.
And they all ate, and were filled; and they took up seven lunch baskets full of the pieces that was left.
Do you not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up; nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many lunch baskets you took up?
And they took up twelve hand baskets full of fragments, also from the fish.
So they ate and were filled. And they took up over and above seven lunch baskets of fragments.
When I broke the five loaves among five thousand, how many hand baskets full of fragments did you take up? They said to Him, Twelve. And when the seven among four thousand, how many lunch baskets full of fragments did you take up? And they said, Seven.
And they ate and were all filled. And there was taken up twelve hand baskets full of fragments of that left over to them.
Therefore they gathered and filled twelve handbaskets with fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over to those who had eaten.
Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a basket.
And I was let down in a basket through a window through the wall, and escaped their 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 the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, I also saw in my dream, and three baskets of white bread were on my head.
And you shall put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bull and the two rams.
and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before Jehovah.
Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a young bull for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread.
And he took one unleavened cake out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and on the right shoulder.
And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And eat it there with the bread in the basket of consecrations, as I have commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.
and a basket of unleavened cakes of fine flour, cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their food offerings and their drink offerings.
And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Jehovah, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also his food offering and his drink offering.
And the priest shall take the boiled shoulder of the ram and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazarite, after his separation has been shaved.
you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the earth which you shall bring of your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose to place His name there.
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.
And it happened when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and killed them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent to him in Jezreel.
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were delivered from the pots.
So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel like a vine; turn back your hand as a grape gatherer into the baskets.
Jehovah caused me to see, and behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah (after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had exiled Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the rulers of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon); one basket had very good figs, like the first ripe figs. And the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.