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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Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or brass, for your belts,
and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;
Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no one on the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing. He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let him take it, in like manner also a scrip, and he that has none let him sell his garment and buy 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 it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man had his bundle of money in his sack; and they saw their bundles of money, they and their father, and were afraid.
cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or brass, for your belts,
and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;
But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried 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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cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or brass, for your belts,
and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;
Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no one on the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing. He said therefore to them, But now he that has a purse let him take it, in like manner also a scrip, and he that has none let him sell his garment and buy a sword;
But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried 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 it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that behold, every man had his bundle of money in his sack; and they saw their bundles of money, they and their father, and were afraid.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
And it shall come to pass, instead of perfume there shall be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a robe of display, a girding of sackcloth; brand instead of beauty.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Shall I be pure with the unjust balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or brass, for your belts,
and he commanded them that they should take nothing for the way, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their belt;
Carry neither purse nor scrip nor sandals, and salute no one on the way.
Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing.
And they said, Lord, behold here are two swords. And he said to them, It is enough.
But he said this, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag, and carried what was put into it.
for some supposed, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus was saying to him, Buy the things of which we have need for the feast; or that he should give something to the poor.