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 of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
You are to put them in one basket and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.
"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the sin offering bull, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf, one loaf of bread mixed with olive oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat parts and on the right thigh.
Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and there you are to eat it and the bread which is in the ordination offering basket, just as I have commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons are to eat it,'
and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head;
you must take the first of all the ground's produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.
The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
He would jab it into the basin, kettle, caldron, or pot, and everything that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all the Israelites when they came there to Shiloh.
When they received the letter, they seized the king's sons and executed all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.
They cooked the Passover sacrifices over the open fire as prescribed and cooked the consecrated offerings in pots, kettles, and pans. They quickly served them to all the people.
Smoke streams from its nostrils as from a boiling pot over burning rushes.
It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.
This is what the Lord who rules over all said to me: "Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time."
One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit. He said, "What do you see, Amos?" I replied, "A basket of summer fruit." Then the Lord said to me, "The end has come for my people Israel! I will no longer overlook their sins.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.
but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city 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 of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.
and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.
Everyone ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
Everyone ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up -- twelve baskets of broken pieces.
They all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up -- twelve baskets of broken pieces.
So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.
So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him 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 that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
You are to put them in one basket and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
you must take the first of all the ground's produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.
Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.
Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.
The Lord showed me two baskets of figs sitting before his temple. This happened after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon deported Jehoiakim's son, King Jeconiah of Judah. He deported him and the leaders of Judah, along with the craftsmen and metal workers, and took them to Babylon.
The sovereign Lord showed me this: I saw a basket of summer fruit.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
Everyone ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him 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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They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, twelve baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
and they picked up the broken pieces and fish that were left over, twelve baskets full.
Everyone ate and was satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces left over, seven baskets full.
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Twelve." "When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?" They replied, "Seven."
They all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up -- twelve baskets of broken pieces.
So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.
But his disciples took him at night and let him down through an opening in the wall by lowering him in a basket.
but I was let down in a rope-basket through a window in the city 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 of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.
You are to put them in one basket and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.
and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the Lord.
"Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, the anointing oil, the sin offering bull, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
and from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the Lord he took one unleavened loaf, one loaf of bread mixed with olive oil, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat parts and on the right thigh.
Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and there you are to eat it and the bread which is in the ordination offering basket, just as I have commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons are to eat it,'
and a basket of bread made without yeast, cakes of fine flour mixed with olive oil, wafers made without yeast and smeared with olive oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
Then he must offer the ram as a peace offering to the Lord, with the basket of bread made without yeast; the priest must also offer his grain offering and his drink offering.
And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head;
you must take the first of all the ground's produce you harvest from the land the Lord your God is giving you, place it in a basket, and go to the place where he chooses to locate his name.
The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.
When they received the letter, they seized the king's sons and executed all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.
It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.
This is what the Lord who rules over all said to me: "Those who remain in Israel will be like the grapes thoroughly gleaned from a vine. So go over them again, as though you were a grape harvester passing your hand over the branches one last time."
The Lord showed me two baskets of figs sitting before his temple. This happened after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon deported Jehoiakim's son, King Jeconiah of Judah. He deported him and the leaders of Judah, along with the craftsmen and metal workers, and took them to Babylon. One basket had very good-looking figs in it. They looked like those that had ripened early. The other basket had very bad-looking figs in it, so bad they could not be eaten.