Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Kiana) #1

word is also rendered in the Authorized Version “kettle” (1 Samuel 2:14),
“caldron” (2 Chronicles 35:13), “seething-pot” (Job 41:20).


In the New Testament mention is made of the basket (Gr. kophinos, small
“wicker-basket”) for the “fragments” in the miracle recorded Mark 6:43,
and in that recorded Matthew 15:37 (Gr. spuris, large “rope-basket”); also
of the basket in which Paul escaped (Acts 9:25, Gr. spuris; 2 Corinthians
11: 33, Gr. sargane, “basket of plaited cords”).

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