Bag
(1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kgs 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa 3:22, where it is rendered “crisping-pins,” but denotes the reticules (or as R.V., “satchels”) carried by Hebrew women.
(2.) Another word (kees) so rendered means a bag for carrying weights (Deut 25:13; Prov 16:11; Mic 6:11). It also denotes a purse (Prov 1:14) and a cup (Prov 23:31).
(3.) Another word rendered “bag” in 1 Sam 17:40 is rendered “sack” in Gen 42:25; and in 1 Sam 9:7; 1 Sam 21:5 “vessel,” or wallet for carrying food.
(4.) The word rendered in the Authorized Version “bags,” in which the priests bound up the money contributed for the restoration of the temple (2 Kgs 12:10), is also rendered “bundle” (Gen 42:35; 1 Sam 25:29). It denotes bags used by travellers for carrying money during a journey (Prov 7:20; Hag 1:6).
(5.) The “bag” of Judas was a small box (John 12:6; John 13:29).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
