Scrip
SCRIP
A bag or wallet, in which travellers carried a portion of food, or some small articles of convenience, 1Sa 17:40 ; Mat 10:10 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Scrip
an old Saxon name for satchel (Bible Educator, 4:209). is used in the A.V. as a rendering of the Heb. , yalkut (from , to collect; Sept. ), in 1Sa 17:40, where it appears as a synonym for ( ), the bag in which the shepherds of Palestine carried their food or other necessaries. In Symmachus and the Vulg. pera, and in the marginal reading of A.V. “scrip,” appear in 2Ki 4:42 for the , tsiklon, which in the text of the A. 57. is translated husk (comp. Gesen. s.v.). The of the New Test. appears in our Lord’s command to his disciples as distinguished from the (Mat 10:10; Mar 6:8) and the (Luk 10:4; Luk 22:35-36), and its nature and use are sufficiently defined by the lexicographers. The English word has a meaning precisely equivalent to that of the Greek. Connected, as it probably is, with scrape, scrap, the scrip was used for articles of food. It belonged especially to shepherds (A s You Like It, act iii, sc. 2). It was made of leather (Milton, Comus, 626). The later sense of scrip as a written certificate is, it need hardly be said, of different origin or meaning; the word, on its first use in English, was written script (Chaucer). The scrip of the ancient peasants was of leather, used especially to carry their food on a journey ( , Suid.; , Ammon.), and slung over their shoulders. In the Talmudic writers the word is used as denoting the same thing, and is named as part of the equipment both of shepherds in their common life and of proselytes coming on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Lightfoot, Hot. Heb. on Mat 10:10). The , on the other hand, was the loose girdle, in the folds of which money was often kept for the sake of safety, SEE GIRDLE; the (sacculus, Vulg.), was the smaller bag used exclusively for money (Luk 12:33). SEE BAG.
Lightfoot, on the authority of rabbi Nathan, describes the scrip as “a kind of vesture, which was a little upper garment in which were many places sewed, where they put anything they met with that they had occasion to use; so that this was a kind of apron with divers purses or pockets made in it, in which the Jews put their necessaries as we do in our pockets, Which apron they could readily put off or on, wear or lay aside, as they saw occasion. As in such an apron they had their pockets, so in the scarf or girdle wherewithal they girded their undercoats they had their purses. Their girdles were ordinarily of linen, and in them they kept their money when they travelled or went from home on their business” (Temple Service, 9:121). SEE PURSE.
Notwithstanding the great hospitality of the Orientals, travellers cannot always calculate upon obtaining a supply of food in their cottages, for most of the peasants are so poor that they can rarely afford to keep more provisions than will meet the immediate wants of their families. Pedestrian travellers and shepherds are therefore accustomed to take with them a satchel, or wallet, in which they carry some dry food and other little articles likely to be useful on a journey. It was in such a bag that David carried the pebble with which he smote the boasting champion of the Philistines (1Sa 17:40). When Christ sent forth his apostles, he forbade them to provide themselves with these satchels; and nothing can more forcibly show the completeness of their dependence on Divine Providence, while executing their mission, than their neglecting to supply themselves with what all other travellers would have regarded as an indispensable requisite (Mat 10:10; Mar 6:8; Luk 9:3; comp. Luk 22:35-36). They were to appear in ever), town or village as men unlike all other travellers, freely doing without that which others looked on as essential. The fresh rule given in Luk 22:35-36, perhaps, also, the facts that Judas was the bearer of the bag (, Joh 12:6), and that when the disciples were without bread they were ashamed of their forgetfulness (Mar 8:14-16), show that the command was not intended to be permanent. The scrip is often made of haircloth, and is of various forms. In Palestine, however, it is usually made of leather (Porter, Damascus, 2:109). In the south of Spain, where many of the usages introduced by the Mohammedan conquerors are still retained, the scrip is usually of goat-skin, and is generally carried over the shoulder. The purse, which some inaccurate commentators have confounded with the scrip, was always Suspended from the girdle. A kind of sanctity is attributed to the scrip by some of the Eastern Jews, as it preserves their food from being polluted by being brought into con tact with those whom they are taught to regard as unclean or profane (see Hackett, Illustrations of Scripture, p. 91). Thomson found the farmers, in the vicinity of the Lake of Gennesaret, carrying wallets made of the skins of kids stripped off whole and roughly tanned; and he supposes these to be the scrip of the Bible (Land and Book, i, 532 sq.).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Scrip
a small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam. 17:40); “a shepherd’s bag.”
In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Matt. 10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; 10:4). The name “scrip” is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Scrip
(“Shepherd’s bag”.) (yalquwt), 1Sa 17:40; 2Ki 4:42 (tsiqlon) margin. In New Testament, the leather “wallet” (fra) slung on the shoulder for carrying food for a journey; distinct from the “purse” (zone, literally, “girdle”; balantion, “small bag for money”): Mat 10:9-10; Luk 10:4; Luk 12:33. Unlike other travelers, the twelve and the seventy, when sent forth, were wholly dependent on God, having no provision for their journey; at other times they carried provisions in a bag and purse (Luk 22:35-36; Joh 12:6; Mar 8:14-16). The English “scrip,” originally “script,” related to “scrap,” was used for food.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Scrip
SCRIP.See Wallet.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Scrip
SCRIP.See Bag.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Scrip
skrip: A word connected with scrap, and meaning a bag, either as made from a scrap (of skin) or as holding scraps (of food, etc.). the King James Version has scrip in 1Sa 17:40 and 1Sa 17:6 times in New Testament; the English Revised Version has wallet in the New Testament, but retains script in 1Sa 17:40; the American Standard Revised Version has wallet throughout. See BAG.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Scrip
A bag, or satchel, often made of the skin of a kid, stripped off whole, and tanned by a simple process. They were slung over the shoulder. 1Sa 17:40; Luk 22:35-36; etc.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Scrip
Scrip. The Hebrew word thus translated appears in 1Sa 17:40, as a synonym for the bag in which the shepherds of Palestine carried their food or other necessities. The scrip of the Galilean peasants was of leather, used especially to carry their food on a journey, and slung over their shoulders. Mat 10:10; Mar 6:8; Luk 9:3; Luk 22:35. The English word “scrip” is probably connected with scrape, scrap, and was used in like manner for articles of food.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Scrip
* For SCRIP see WALLET