There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread ( Genesis 40:16 ; Exodus 29:3,23 ; Leviticus 8:2,26,31 ; Numbers 6:15,17,19 ). Sometimes baskets were made of twigs peeled; their manufacture was a recognized trade among the Hebrews. That used (Heb. salsilloth') in gathering grapes ( Jeremiah 6:9 ). That in which the first fruits of the harvest were presented, Heb. tene, ( Deuteronomy 26:2,4 ). It was also used for household purposes. In form it tapered downwards like that called Corbis by the Romans. A basket (Heb. kelub) having a lid, resembling a bird-cage. It was made of leaves or rushes. The name is also applied to fruit-baskets ( Amos 8:1,2 ). A basket (Heb. dud) for carrying figs ( Jeremiah 24:2 ), also clay to the brick-yard (RSV, Psalm 81:6 ), and bulky articles ( 2 Kings 10:7 ). This 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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