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, save a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
Carry neither purse, nor sack, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and sack, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he to them, But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his sack: and he that hath 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 they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Cast in thy 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 maketh it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save 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 in 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; 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 maketh it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses;
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
Carry neither purse, nor sack, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and sack, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing. Then said he to them, But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his sack: and he that hath 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 in 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's bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small:
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
He hath 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 smell there shall be an offensive odor; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.
Shall I count them 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, save a staff only; no bag, no bread, no money in their purse:
Carry neither purse, nor sack, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
Sell what ye have, and give alms: provide yourselves bags which become not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and sack, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to 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 in it.
For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said to him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.