Bags
Bags
The currency in the East being mainly in silver, large sums ready counted, and sealed with a known seal in a bag; passed current (compare 2Ki 5:23; 2Ki 12:10; Luk 12:33; Job 14:17, “my transgression is sealed up in a bag”; Deu 32:34; Hos 13:12, sealed securely for punishment). Charitim, cone-shaped bags (2Ki 5:23); translated for “crisping pins,” Isa 3:22, “reticules.” Kis, bags for carrying weights (Deu 25:13) or money (Pro 1:14). Keliy, the “shepherd’s bag,” for carrying materials for healing or binding up lame sheep (Eze 34:4; Eze 34:16). Glossokomon, used for the mouthpieces of musical instruments (Joh 12:6; Joh 13:29). Judas carried in it the common property of the Twelve.