Reference: Purse
Easton
(1.) Gr. balantion, a bag (Lu 10:4; 22:35-36).
(2.) Gr. zone, properly a girdle (Mt 10:9; Mr 6:8), a money-belt. As to our Lord's sending forth his disciples without money in their purses, the remark has been made that in this "there was no departure from the simple manners of the country. At this day the farmer sets out on excursions quite as extensive without a para in his purse; and a modern Moslem prophet of Tarshisha thus sends forth his apostles over this identical region. No traveller in the East would hestitate to throw himself on the hospitality of any village." Thomson's Land and the Book. (See Scrip.)
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Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;
Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing. And he said to them, But now, he who has a money-bag, or a bag for food, let him take it: and he who has not, let him give his coat for money and get a sword.
Fausets
Often "the girdle" (zoonee): Mt 10:9; Mr 6:8. Or "a bag for money", and "for merchants' weights". (Ge 42:35; Pr 1:14; Isa 46:6; Joh 12:6, glossokomon, literally, a bag for carrying mouthpieces of musical instruments.)
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And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.
Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
Hastings
Morish
A bag for money or weights. Pr 1:14; Isa 46:6; Lu 10:4; 22:35-36; Joh 12:6. In Mt 10:9; Mr 6:8, the 'girdle' is alluded to, a portion of which was used as a purse.
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Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;
Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing. And he said to them, But now, he who has a money-bag, or a bag for food, let him take it: and he who has not, let him give his coat for money and get a sword.
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
Smith
Purse,
a bag for money. The Hebrews, when on a journey, were provided with a bag, in which they carried their money,
Ge 42:35; Pr 1:14; 7:20; Isa 46:6
and, if they were merchants, also their weights.
De 25:13; Mic 6:11
This bag is described in the New Testament by the terms balantion (bag)
Lu 10:4; 12:33; 22:35,38
and glossokomon (originally the bag in which musicians carried the mouth-pieces of their Instruments).
Joh 12:6; 13:29
The girdle also served as a purse.
Ladies wore ornamental purses.
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And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.
Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;
Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:
He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.
As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.
Is it possible for me to let wrong scales and the bag of false weights go without punishment?
Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;
Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
Give what property you have in exchange for money, and give the money to the poor; make for yourselves money-bags which will not get old, wealth stored up in heaven which will be yours for ever, where thieves will not come nor worms put it to destruction.
And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.
And they said, Lord, here are two swords. And he said, It is enough.
(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)
Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor.