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 neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
Carry neither purse, nor bag, nor shoes: and greet no man by the way.
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and bag, and sandals, lacked you anything? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his bag: and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
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's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.
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 your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
Carry neither purse, nor bag, nor shoes: and greet no man by the way.
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and bag, and sandals, lacked you anything? And they said, Nothing. Then said he unto them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it, and likewise his bag: and he that has no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.
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's bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a great and a small.
Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet fragrance there shall be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; and a burning scar instead of beauty.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Shall I count those pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
Carry neither purse, nor bag, nor shoes: and greet no man by the way.
Sell what you have, and give alms; provide yourselves purses which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts.
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and bag, and sandals, lacked you anything? And they said, Nothing.
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.
For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of for the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.