Dict: easton - Bottle

Bottle @ a vessel made of skins for holding wine kjv@Joshua:9:4. 13; kjv@1Samuel:16:20; kjv@Matthew:9:17; kjv@Mark:2:22; kjv@Luke:5:37-38), or milk kjv@Judges:4:19), or water kjv@Genesis:21:14-15, 19), or strong drink kjv@Habakkuk:2:15). Earthenware vessels were also similarly used kjv@Jeremiah:19:1-10; kjvKings:14:3; kjv@Isaiah:30:14). In kjv@Job:32:19 (comp. kjv@Matthew:9:17; kjv@Luke:5:37-38; kjv@Mark:2:22) the reference is to a wine-skin ready to burst through the fermentation of the wine. "Bottles of wine" in the Authorized Version of kjv@Hosea:7:5 is properly rendered in the Revised Version by "the heat of wine," i.e., the fever of wine, its intoxicating strength. The clouds are figuratively called the "bottles of heaven" kjv@Job:38:37). A bottle blackened or shrivelled by smoke is referred to in kjv@Psalms:119:83 as an image to which the psalmist likens himself.