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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Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
And enjoined them, that they take nothing for the way, except a rod only; no travelling-sack, no bread, no brass in the purse:
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor shoes: and greet none by the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did ye want any thing? And they said, Nothing, Then said he to them, But now, he having a purse, let him take up, and likewise a wallet: and he not having, 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 will be in their emptying their sacks, and behold, the bundle of silver of each in his sack: and they will see the bundles of their silver, they and their father, and they will be afraid.
Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:
Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship
Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
And enjoined them, that they take nothing for the way, except a rod only; no travelling-sack, no bread, no brass in the purse:
And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.
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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Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:
Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship
Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
And enjoined them, that they take nothing for the way, except a rod only; no travelling-sack, no bread, no brass in the purse:
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor shoes: and greet none by the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did ye want any thing? And they said, Nothing, Then said he to them, But now, he having a purse, let him take up, and likewise a wallet: and he not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword.
And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.
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 will be in their emptying their sacks, and behold, the bundle of silver of each in his sack: and they will see the bundles of their silver, they and their father, and they will be afraid.
There shall not be to thee in thy receptacle a stone and a stone, great and small.
Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:
He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon.
And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.
Squandering gold out of the bag and they will weigh silver in the balance, they will hire a founder, and he will make it a god: they will fall down, they will also worship
Shall I make clean with the balances of injustice, and with the bag of stones of deceit?
Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
And enjoined them, that they take nothing for the way, except a rod only; no travelling-sack, no bread, no brass in the purse:
Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor shoes: and greet none by the way.
Sell your possessions, and give alms; make to yourselves purses not growing old, an inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where the thief approaches not, nor moth corrupts.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and wallet, and shoes, did ye want any thing? And they said, Nothing,
And they said, Lord, behold, two swords here. And he said to them, It is enough.
And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.
For some thought, since Judas had the small coffer, that Jesus says to him, Purchase of what we have need for the festival; or, that he might give something to the poor.