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Basket, Basketful
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
or was "a wicker basket," originally containing a certain measure of capacity, Matthew 14:20; 16:9; Mark 6:43 (RV, "basketfuls"); 8:19; Luke 9:17; 13:8 in some mss.; John 6:13 .
or sphuris, signifies "something round, twisted or folded together" (connected with speira, "anything rolled into a circle;" Eng., "sphere"); hence a reed basket, plaited, a capacious kind of hamper, sometimes large enough to hold a man, Matthew 15:37; 16:10; Mark 8:8,20 (RV, "basketfuls"); Acts 9:25 .
denotes (a) "a braided rope or band," (b) "a large basket made of ropes, or a wicker "basket" made of entwined twigs, 2 Corinthians 11:33 . That the "basket" in which Paul was let down from a window in Damascus is spoken of by Luke as a spuris, and by Paul himself as a sargane, is quite consistent, the two terms being used for the same article.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Basket, Basketful'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/b/basket-basketful.html. 1940.
