Bag
BAG
Deu 25:13 Luk 12:33 . Eastern money was often sealed up in bags containing a certain sum, for which they passed current while the seal remained unbroken, 2Ki 12:10 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Bag
a purse or pouch. The following words in the original are thus rendered in the English version of the Bible:
1. , charit’, a pocket (Sept. , Vulg. saccus), the bags in which Naaman bound up the two talents of silver for Gehazi (2Ki 5:23), probably so called, according to Gesenius, from their long. cone-like shape. The word only occurs besides in Isa 3:22 (A. V. crisping- pins), and there denotes the reticules carried by the Hebrew ladies.
2. , kis (Sept. , , Vulg. sacculus, saccellus), a bag for carrying weights (Deu 25:13; Pro 16:11; Mic 6:11); also used as a purse (Pro 1:14; Isa 46:6); hence a cup (Pro 23:31).
3. , keli’ (Sept. , Vulg. pera), translated bag in 1Sa 17:40; 1Sa 17:49, is a word of most general meaning, and is generally rendered vessel or instrument. In Gen 42:25, it is the sack in which Jacob’s sons carried the corn which they brought from Egypt, and in 1Sa 9:7; 1Sa 21:5, it denotes a bag or wallet for carrying food (A. V. vessel; compare Jdg 10:5; Jdg 13:10; Jdg 13:15). The shepherd’s bag which David had seems to have been worn by him as necessary to his calling, and was probably, from a comparison of Zec 11:15-16 (where A.V. instruments is the same word), for the purpose of carrying the lambs which were unable to walk or were lost, and contained materials for healing such as were sick and binding up those that were broken (comp. Eze 34:4; Eze 34:16). 4. . tseror’ (Sept. , , Vulg. sacculus), properly a bundle (Gen 42:35; 1Sa 25:29), appears to have been used by travelers for carrying money during a long journey (Pro 7:20; Hag 1:6; compare Luk 12:33; Tob 9:5). In such bundles the priests bound up the money which was contributed for the restoration of the Temple under Jehoiada (2Ki 12:10; A. V. put up in bags)
5. The bag (, Vulg. loculi) which Judas carried was probably a small box or chest (Joh 12:6; Joh 13:29). The Greek word is the same as that used in the Sept. for chest in 2Ch 24:8; 2Ch 24:10-11, and originally signified a box used by musicians for carrying the mouthpieces of their instruments.
6. The , or wallet (Luk 10:4; Luk 12:33; Luk 22:35-36). Of these terms it will only be necessary here to discuss one application, which they all sustain, i.e. as a receptacle for money. The money deposited in the treasuries of Eastern princes, or intended for large payments, or to be sent to a government as taxes or tribute, is collected in long, narrow bags or purses, each containing a certain amount of money, and sealed with the official seal. As the money is counted for this purpose, and sealed with great care by officers properly appointed, the bag or purse passes current, as long as the seal remains unbroken, for the amount marked thereon. In the receipt and payment of large sums, this is a great and important convenience in countries where the management of large transactions by paper is unknown, or where a currency is chiefly or wholly of silver; it saves the great trouble of counting or weighing loose money. This usage is so well established that, at this day, in the Levant, a purse is the very name for a certain amount of money (now twenty-five dollars), and all large payments are stated in purses. The antiquity of this custom is attested by the monuments of Egypt, in which the ambassadors of distant nations are represented as bringing their tributes in sealed bags of money to Thothmes III; and we see the same bags deposited intact in the royal treasury (Wilkinson, 1:148, abridgm.). When coined money was not used, the seal must have been considered a voucher not only for the amount, but for the purity of the metal. The money collected in the Temple, in the time of Joash, seems to have been made up into bags of equal value after this fashion, which were probably delivered sealed to those who paid the workmen (2Ki 12:10; comp. also 2Ki 5:23; Tob 9:5; Tob 11:16). SEE MONEY.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bag (2)
was a Persian deity, who is said to have given Bagdad its name. A temple was built for her by the wife of king Cyrus.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bag
(1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered “crisping-pins,” but denotes the reticules (or as R.V., “satchels”) carried by Hebrew women.
(2.) Another word (kees) so rendered means a bag for carrying weights (Deut. 25:13; Prov. 16:11; Micah 6:11). It also denotes a purse (Prov. 1:14) and a cup (23:31).
(3.) Another word rendered “bag” in 1 Sam. 17:40 is rendered “sack” in Gen. 42:25; and in 1 Sam. 9:7; 21:5 “vessel,” or wallet for carrying food.
(4.) The word rendered in the Authorized Version “bags,” in which the priests bound up the money contributed for the restoration of the temple (2 Kings 12:10), is also rendered “bundle” (Gen. 42:35; 1 Sam. 25:29). It denotes bags used by travellers for carrying money during a journey (Prov. 7:20; Hag. 1:6).
(5.) The “bag” of Judas was a small box (John 12:6; 13:29).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Bag
BAG (Joh 12:6; Joh 13:29 ; in Luk 12:33 is translation bags in Authorized Version , but Revised Version NT 1881, OT 1885 purses; see Purse).
(in NT peculiar to St. John) meant originally a case for keeping the mouth-pieces of wind instruments (, ); so Phrynicus, who gives as the proper form, rejecting that of NT, which, however, is found in an old Doric inscription, in later Comic writers and in LXX Septuagint (see Liddell and Scott). The (Revised Version margin) box seems the better rendering. Field (ON [Note: N Otium Norvicense.] ) has a very full note, in which he concludes that ., both in its general and in its special sense, means not a bag, but a box or chest, always of wood or other hard material. Thus Hesychius defines it as a wooden receptacle of remnants ( ); Arrian mentions made of tortoise-shell; in the Anthology . is apparently a coffin (when I look at Nicanor the coffin-maker [], and consider for what purpose he makes these wooden boxes []); and in an inscription quoted by Hatch (Essays in Biblical Greek) . means the strong box or muniment chest of an association. The LXX Septuagint translates in 2Ch 24:8 f. by . (the chest for the offerings, but in 2Ki 12:9 f. as usually), which Cod. A also gives in 2Sa 6:11 (the Ark). Aquila uses . for in all its significations, e.g. coffin (Gen 50:26), the Ark (Exo 37:1, 1Sa 5:1, 2Sa 6:11). Ancient Versions of Jn. agree with this view; Vulgate gives loculos, the plural, says Field, indicating several partitions, a small portable cash-box; D [Note: Deuteronomist.] lat. loculum; Nonnus , ligneam arculam. In favour of Authorized and Revised Versions it may be urged that something small and easily carried is required by the context, whereas the above instances are chiefly larger boxes (but note use of . by Hesychius and Arrian above). Again, in 1Sa 6:8 f. (Authorized and Revised Versions coffer) is translation by Josephus, and is from a root to tremble, wag, move to and fro, whence in Arabic there is a similar word meaning a bag filled with stones hung at the sides of camels to preserve equilibrium (see Gesenius, Lex.). In modern Greek also . means purse or bag (Hatch).
The . was the receptacle for the money of Jesus and the disciples; it contained, no doubt, the proceeds of the sale of their goods, and gave the idea later of the common fund (Act 4:32 f.); it was replenished by the gifts of friends (Luk 8:3); and from it the poor were helped (Joh 13:29). Judas may have been entrusted with it as being the best fitted for such work; but what might have proved a blessing, as giving useful employment for his talents, became the means of his ruin. Other suggested explanations are: that Christ thought lit to call forth a manifestation of his sin as the only means of cure (Hengstenberg); or that it was simply a private arrangement between the disciples (Godet). The bag could not have been taken from him, as Edersheim (Life and Times, ii. 472) remarks, without exposing him to the others, and precipitating his moral destruction. See Judas Iscariot.
W. H. Dundas.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Bag
Bags of various kinds are mentioned in the English Bible, but often in a way to obscure rather than tr the original.
(1) Bag is used for a Hebrew word which means a shepherd’s bag, rendered wallet in the Revised Version (British and American). This bag of the shepherd or haversack of the traveler was of a size sufficient for one or more days’ provisions. It was made of the skin of animals, ordinarily undressed, as most of the other bags of ancient times were, and was carried slung across the shoulder. This is the scrip for the journey , pera mentioned in Mat 10:10 and its parallel (the King James Version). (Scrip is Old English, now obsolete.) A unique word appears in 1Sa 17:40, 1Sa 17:49 which had to be explained even to Hebrew readers by the gloss, the shepherd’s bag, but which is likewise rendered wallet by the American Standard Revised Version.
(2) Bag translates also a word , ballantion which stands for the more finished leather pouch, or satchel which served as a purse (see Christ’s words, Luk 10:4 King James Version: Carry neither purse, nor scrip, and Luk 12:33 King James Version: Provide yourselves bags which wax not old). The word rendered purse in Mat 10:9 : Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses; Mar 6:8 : No money in their purse, is a different word entirely , zone, the true rendering of which is girdle (Revised Version, margin). The oriental girdle, though sometimes of crude leather, or woven camel’s hair (see GIRDLE), was often of fine material and elegant workmanship, and was either made hollow so to carry money, or when of silk or cloth, worn in folds, when the money was carried in the folds.
(3) The small merchant’s bag often knotted in a handkerchief for carrying the weights, such as is mentioned in Deu 25:13 : Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small, was another variety. This too was used as purse, as in the case of the proposed common purse of the wicked mentioned in Pro 1:14 : We will all have one purse, and sometimes carried in the girdle (compare Isa 46:6).
(4) Then there was the bag , ceror, rendered bundle in Gen 42:35) which was the favorite receptacle for valuables, jewels, as well as money, used figuratively with fine effect in 1Sa 25:29 : The soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life – life’s jewel-case (see 2Ki 12:10 where the money of the temple was said to be put up tied up in bags). This was a bag that could be tied with a string: Behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack, and (compare Pro 7:20) He hath taken a bag of money with him (compare Hag 1:6 : earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes).
A seal was sometimes put on the knot, which occasions the figure of speech used in Job (Job 14:16, Job 14:17), Dost thou not watch over my sin? My transgression is sealed up in a bag, i.e. it is securely kept and reckoned against me (compare also 1Sa 9:7; 1Sa 21:5 where the Hebrew , kel, is rendered by vessels and stands for receptacles for carrying food, not necessarily bags).
(5) Another Hebrew word , hart; Arabic haritat, is used, on the one hand, for a bag large enough to hold a talent of silver (see 2Ki 5:23, bound two talents of silver in two bags), and on the other, for a dainty lady’s satchel, such as is found in Isa 3:22 (wrongly rendered crisping pins in the King James Version). This is the most adequate Hebrew word for a large bag.
(6) The bag which Judas carried (see Joh 12:6 the King James Version, He was a thief and had the bag; compare Joh 13:29) was in reality the small box (Revised Version, margin) originally used for holding the mouthpieces of wind instruments (Kennedy, in the 1-volume HDB). The Hebrew , ‘argaz, found only here) of 1Sa 6:8, rendered coffer in English Versions of the Bible and translated , glossokomon, by Josephus, appears to stand for a small chest used to hold the gold figures sent by the Philistines as a guilt offering. It is from a word that means to wag, to move to and fro; compare the similar word in Arabic meaning a bag filled with stones hung at the side of the camel to preserve equilibrium (Gesenius). But the same word Josephus uses is found in modern Greek and means purse or bag (Hatch). Later to carry the bag came to mean to be treasurer.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Bag
Fig. 81Money Purses
Bag, a purse or pouch (Deu 25:13; Job 14:17; 1Sa 17:40; Luk 12:33). The money deposited in the treasuries of Eastern princes, or intended for large payments, or to be sent to a government as taxes or tribute, is collected in long narrow bags or purses, each containing a certain amount of money, and sealed with the official seal. As the money is counted for this purpose, and sealed with great care by officers properly appointed, the bag, or purse, passes current, as long as the seal remains unbroken, for the amount marked thereon. In the receipt and payment of large sums, this is a great and important convenience in countries where the management of large transactions by paper is unknown, or where a currency is chiefly or wholly of silver it saves the great trouble of counting or weighing loose money. This usage is so well established, that, at this day, in the Levant, ‘a purse’ is the very name for a certain amount of money (now five pounds sterling), and all large payments are stated in ‘purses.’ The antiquity of this custom is attested by the monuments of Egypt, in which the ambassadors of distant nations are represented as bringing their tributes in sealed bags of money to Thothmes III; and we see the same bags deposited intact in the royal treasury. When coined money was not used, the seal must have been considered a voucher not only for the amount, but for the purity of the metal. The money collected in the Temple, in the time of Joash, seems to have been made up into bags of equal value after this fashion; which were probably delivered, sealed, to those who paid the workmen (2Ki 12:10; comp. also 2Ki 5:23; Tob 9:5; Tob 11:15).
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Bag
Sack or pouch for holding anything.
Deu 25:13; 2Ki 5:23; Mat 10:9-10
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Bag
Bag. Deu 25:13, and Luk 12:33, where the R. V. reads “purses.” Eastern money was often sealed up in bags containing a certain sum, for which they passed current while the seal remained unbroken. 2Ki 12:10. The same custom continues at this day.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Bag
Bag. Bag is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments.
1. Hebrew, Charitim, the “bags” in which Naaman bound up the two talents of silver for Gehazi. 2Ki 5:23. They were long cone-like bags of the size to hold a precise amount of money, and tied or sealed for that amount, as we stamp the value on a coin.
2. Hebrew, Cis, a bag for carrying weights, Deu 25:13, also used as a purse Pro 1:14.
3. Hebrew, Celi, in Gen 42:25, is the “sack” in which Jacob’s sons carried the corn which they brought from Egypt.
4. The shepherd’s “bag” used by David was for the purpose of carrying the lambs unable to walk. Zec 11:15; Zec 16:5.
5. Hebrew, Tschar, properly a “bundle,” Gen 42:35, appears to have been used by travellers for carrying money during a long journey. Pro 7:20.
6. The “bag” which Judas carried was probably a small box or chest. Joh 12:6; Joh 13:29.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Bag
from glossa, “a tongue,” and komeo, “to tend,” was, firstly, “a case” in which to keep the mouthpiece of wind instruments; secondly, “a small box” for any purpose, but especially a “casket or purse,” to keep money in. It is used of the “bag” which Judas carried, Joh 12:6; Joh 13:29; in the Sept. of 2Ch 24:8, 2Ch 24:10, used of the “box” appointed by King Joash for offerings for the repair of the Temple.
from ballo, “to cast,” “a money-box or purse,” is found in Luke’s Gospel, four times, Luk 10:4; Luk 12:33 (AV, “bag”); Luk 22:35-36. See PURSE.
Note: Zone, “a gridle or belt,” also served as “a purse for money,” Mat 10:9; Mar 6:8. See GIRDLE.
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Bag
a purse or pouch, Deu 25:13; 1Sa 17:40; Luk 12:33; Job 14:17. The money collected in the treasuries of eastern princes was reckoned up in certain equal sums, put into bags and sealed. These are, in some parts of the Levant, called purses, where they estimate great expenses by so many purses. The money collected in the temple in the time of Joash, for its reparation, seems, in like manner, to have been told up in bags of equal value; and these were probably delivered sealed to those who paid the workmen, 2Ki 12:10. In the east, in the present day, a bag of money passes, for some time at least, currently from hand to hand, under the authority of a banker’s seal, without any examination of its contents. See Tob 9:5; Tob 11:16.
Fuente: Biblical and Theological Dictionary
Bag
Job 14:17 (a) We are to learn from this that GOD is keeping a careful record of every sin, none are overlooked, none are forgotten. Each one is preserved by GOD against the record of the sinner unless all of them are blotted out by the precious Blood of JESUS.
Hag 1:6 (b) This represents a business that failed, stocks and bonds that lose their value, barrenness in the fields caused by crop failure, the loss of sheep and cattle – generally speaking, the failure of those enterprises into which GOD’s people put their money instead of giving it to Him. Those who rob GOD of that which is His due, will not profit by that which they save.
Joh 12:6 (a) Judas was the treasurer for the disciples and was stealing from the fund entrusted to his care. It is a lesson to us not to misuse that which belongs to the Lord, and which is in our possession for safekeeping.