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Scrip
A small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam 17:40); “a shepherd’s bag.”
In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Matt 10:10; Mark 6:8; Luke 9:3; Luke 10:4). The name “scrip” is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
