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For holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (pak) used for it is more appropriately rendered “vial” in 1 Sam 10:1, and should also be so rendered in 2 Kgs 9:1, where alone else it occurs.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
