Dict: easton - Basket

easton:

Basket @ There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version:

(1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread kjv@Genesis:40:16; kjv@Exodus:29:3 kjv@Exodus:29:23 kjv@Leviticus:8:2 kjv@Leviticus:8:26, 31; kjv@Numbers:6:15-17, 19). Sometimes baskets were made of twigs peeled; their manufacture was a recognized trade among the Hebrews.

(2.) That used (Heb. salsilloth') in gathering grapes kjv@Jeremiah:6:9).

(3.) That in which the first fruits of the harvest were presented, Heb. tene, kjv@Deuteronomy:26:2-4). It was also used for household purposes. In form it tapered downwards like that called corbis by the Romans.

(4.) 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 kjv@Amos:8:1-2).

(5.) A basket (Heb. dud) for carrying figs kjv@Jeremiah:24:2), also clay to the brick-yard (R.V., kjv@Psalms:81:6), and bulky articles ( kjv@2Kings:10:7). This word is also rendered in the Authorized Version "kettle" ( kjv@1Samuel:2:14), "caldron" ( kjv@2Chronicals:35:13), "seething-pot" kjv@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 kjv@Mark:6:43, and in that recorded kjv@Matthew:15:37 (Gr. spuris, large "rope-basket"); also of the basket in which Paul escaped kjv@Acts:9:25, Gr. spuris; kjv@2Corinthians:11:33, Gr. sargane, "basket of plaited cords").