Spoon
spoon
In the celebration of the Eucharist in Eastern Rites (Uniat) a spoon is used for conveying a part of the Host soaked in consecrated wine to the communicant. In some places a spoon is used to measure the few drops of water mixed with wine at the celebration of the Mass. A spoonful of water is used also to help the sick swallow the Sacred Host.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Spoon
(, kaph, a hand, as elsewhere), a hollow dish or pan used as a censer for the Tabernacle and Temple (Exo 25:29; Num 4:7; Num 7:14 sq.; 1Ki 7:50; 2Ki 25:14; 2Ch 24:14; Jer 52:18-19). The Orientals generally eat with the fingers, and so have no occasion for knives, forks, etc. SEE EATING. Among the ancient Egyptians spoons were introduced when required for soup or other liquids; and perhaps even a knife was employed on some occasions, to facilitate the carving of a large joint, which is sometimes done in the East at the present day. The Egyptian spoons were of various forms and sizes. They were principally of ivory, bone, wood, or bronze, and other metals; and in some the handle terminated in a hook, by which, if required, they were suspended to a nail. Many were ornamented with the lotus flower; the handles of others were made to represent an animal or a human figure; some were of very arbitrary shape; and a smaller kind, of round form, probably intended for taking ointment out of a vase and transferring it to a shell or cup for immediate use, are occasionally discovered in the tombs. (Wilkinson, Anc. Egypt. 1, 183 sq.). SEE DISH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Spoon (2)
a vessel used both in preparing the chalice for the eucharist and for distributing the sacrament to the faithful generally, to the infirm, and the sick. In the first case the bowl is perforated, in order that any impurities in the altar wine may be easily and simply removed; in the other the bowl is solid, and the handle usually made in the form of a cross. Many ancient examples exist. The spoon is likewise used in the ceremonies of a coronation.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Spoon
spoon (, kaph; Septuagint , thuske, except in Jer 52:18, where it is , kreagra, literally, fork): A hollow vessel, a censer; a small vessel in which incense was to be burnt, as is seen from the account given in Nu 7 of the oblations of the princes of the tribes after the setting-up of the tabernacle. Beginning with Num 7:14, we meet at every succeeding 6th verse the statement, one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense, till at Num 7:86 the summary statement is made, the twelve golden spoons, full of incense.