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 he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.
Put them in a basket and offer them to me when you sacrifice the bull and the two rams.
From the basket of bread which has been offered to me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake.
Bring Aaron and his sons, the priests' clothes, the anointing oil, the bull that will be the offered for sin, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread.
He took a loaf of unleavened bread, a ring of bread made with olive oil. He took a wafer from the basket of unleavened bread in Jehovah's presence. He put them on the fat and the right thigh.
Moses told Aaron and his sons: Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Take the meat and the bread in the basket of the ordination offering. Eat them there as I commanded when I said: 'Aaron and his sons will eat it.'
They must also bring a basket of unleavened bread containing some rings of bread made with olive oil and wafers of unleavened bread brushed with olive oil, along with other grain offerings and wine offerings.
He will sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering to Jehovah. He will offer the basket of unleavened bread along with it, and make the grain offerings and wine offerings.
The priest will take one of the shoulders from a boiled ram, one ring of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread and hand them to the Nazirites after they have shaved off their hair.
Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name.
The priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.
He stuck it into the pan, kettle, 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.
As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
The Levites roasted the Passover sacrifices over the fire, according to the regulations. They boiled the sacred offerings in pots, kettles, and pans, and quickly distributed the meat to the people.
Out of its nostrils comes smoke, as from a boiling pot and burning rushes.
I relieved his shoulder of the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
Jehovah of Hosts says: They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel. Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer over the baskets.
One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten.
The Lord Jehovah showed me a basket of summer fruit. 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 spare them no longer.
They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.
They collected twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fishes.
During the night the disciples let him down by the wall in a basket.
So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.
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 he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.
When the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.
And they all had plenty to eat. In fact they had twelve baskets full of food left over.
And they all had plenty to eat. In fact they had twelve baskets full of food left over.
They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.
They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.
Do you still not see or remember the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
Do you still not see or remember the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
They collected twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fishes.
They collected twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fishes.
After eating they picked up seven baskets full of food.
After eating they picked up seven baskets full of food.
They ate and were all filled. Twelve baskets of left over pieces remained.
They ate and were all filled. Twelve baskets of left over pieces remained.
They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers after everyone had eaten.
They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers after everyone had eaten.
During the night the disciples let him down by the wall in a basket.
During the night the disciples let him down by 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 that he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.
Put them in a basket and offer them to me when you sacrifice the bull and the two rams.
Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name.
Jehovah will bless your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.
So Gideon went into his house and cooked a young goat and used a bushel of flour to make bread without any yeast. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, brought them to Jehovah's angel under the oak tree, and gave them to him.
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away captive Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah. He also captured the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. Then Jehovah showed me two baskets of figs set before the Temple of Jehovah!
And they all had plenty to eat. In fact they had twelve baskets full of food left over.
They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.
After eating they picked up seven baskets full of food.
During the night the disciples let him down by 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 had plenty to eat. In fact they had twelve baskets full of food left over.
They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.
Do you still not see or remember the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
They collected twelve baskets full of broken pieces of bread and fishes.
After eating they picked up seven baskets full of food.
When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand how many baskets full of broken pieces did you up bring back? They answered: Twelve. And the seven loaves among the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you bring back? And they told him: Seven.
They ate and were all filled. Twelve baskets of left over pieces remained.
They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers after everyone had eaten.
During the night the disciples let him down by the wall in a basket.
So I was let down in a basket through an opening in the wall and escaped from him.
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.
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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 he had interpreted favorably, he said to Joseph: I also saw in my dream three baskets of white bread on my head.
Put them in a basket and offer them to me when you sacrifice the bull and the two rams.
From the basket of bread which has been offered to me, take one loaf of each kind: one loaf made with olive oil and one made without it and one thin cake.
Bring Aaron and his sons, the priests' clothes, the anointing oil, the bull that will be the offered for sin, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread.
He took a loaf of unleavened bread, a ring of bread made with olive oil. He took a wafer from the basket of unleavened bread in Jehovah's presence. He put them on the fat and the right thigh.
Moses told Aaron and his sons: Cook the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Take the meat and the bread in the basket of the ordination offering. Eat them there as I commanded when I said: 'Aaron and his sons will eat it.'
They must also bring a basket of unleavened bread containing some rings of bread made with olive oil and wafers of unleavened bread brushed with olive oil, along with other grain offerings and wine offerings.
He will sacrifice the ram as a fellowship offering to Jehovah. He will offer the basket of unleavened bread along with it, and make the grain offerings and wine offerings.
The priest will take one of the shoulders from a boiled ram, one ring of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread and hand them to the Nazirites after they have shaved off their hair.
Take some of the first of all the produce of the ground that you bring in from your land that Jehovah your God gives you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where Jehovah your God chooses to establish His name.
The priest will take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Jehovah your God.
As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.
I relieved his shoulder of the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
Jehovah of Hosts says: They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel. Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer over the baskets.
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away captive Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah. He also captured the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem and brought them to Babylon. Then Jehovah showed me two baskets of figs set before the Temple of Jehovah! One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because they were rotten.