Topic
Bowl
43 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
These works date from 1896–1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 44:2Easton · ISBE
And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
- Exodus 25:29Easton · Nave Made of gold — For the tabernacle
And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 25:33Easton · ISBE
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.
- Exodus 37:16Easton · Nave Made of gold — For the tabernacle
And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
- Numbers 7:13ISBE · Nave Made of gold — Of silver
And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Ecclesiastes 12:6ISBE · Nave FIGURATIVE
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
- Jeremiah 35:5Easton · ISBE
And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.
- Zechariah 4:3Easton · ISBE
And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
- Genesis 44:12Easton
And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- Genesis 44:16Easton
And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
- Exodus 25:31Easton
¶ And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.
- Exodus 25:34Easton
And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.
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- Exodus 37:17 Easton
- Exodus 37:19 Easton
- Exodus 37:20 Easton
- Numbers 4:7 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:19 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:25 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:31 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:37 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:43 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:49 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:55 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:61 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:67 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:73 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:79 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Numbers 7:84 Nave Made of gold — Of silver
- Judges 5:25 ISBE
- Judges 6:38 ISBE
- 1 Kings 7:41 ISBE
- 1 Kings 7:42 ISBE
- 1 Kings 7:50 Nave Made of gold — Temple
- 1 Chronicles 28:17 Nave Made of gold — Temple
- 2 Chronicles 4:8 Nave Made of gold — Temple
- 2 Chronicles 4:12 ISBE
- 2 Chronicles 4:13 ISBE
- Isaiah 51:17 ISBE
- Isaiah 51:22 ISBE
- Amos 6:6 ISBE
- Zechariah 4:2 Easton
- Zechariah 14:20 Nave Stamped “Holiness to the Lord,”
- Zechariah 14:21 Nave Stamped “Holiness to the Lord,”
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 14 references
The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Ex. 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered “cup” (Gen. 44:2, 12, 16), and wine “pot” (Jer. 35:5). The reservoir for oil, from which pipes led to each lamp in Zechariah’s vision of the candlestick, is called also by this name (Zech. 4:2, 3); so also are the vessels used for libations (Ex. 25:29; 37:16).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 16 references
bol:
(1) The primitive Hebrews, like the wandering Bedouin of today, probably used bowls of wood, as less breakable than earthenware. Some hollow dish of the sort would be indispensable, even in the lowest stage of nomad life, to receive the milk of the flock, and as the common dish in which to serve the family meal. We have abundant proof, however, that vessels of earthenware of various sorts were in use by the settled peoples of Canaan in the earliest times. Many interesting specimens, characteristic of different peoples and ages, have been found by excavators of the PEF, especially recently by Flinders Petrie and Fred. Bliss at Tell el-Hesy (see Tell el-Hesy (Lachish), by Petrie, and A Mound of Many Cities, by Bliss) and by Macalister and others at Gezer, Taanach, Megiddo, etc. (see PEFS).
It was probably in some such dish--"a bowl fit for lords" (English Versions, "a lordly dish")--that Jael offered. Sisera a draught of sour milk (Jud 5:25; compare Arabic leben), and the bowl into which Gideon wrung the water from his fleece (Jud 6:38) is denoted by the same word (cephel; Septuagint lekane), though this may have been of earthenware instead of wood. Certainly the cephel was a dish of goodly size.
(2) Another word rendered sometimes "bowl" and sometimes "basin" is mizraq. It is used of the large silver bowls presented by "the princes of the congregation" (Nu 7:13 f). See BASIN. It is also applied by Amos 6:6 to the costly bowls used by the nobles of Samaria in their debaucheries.
(3) A still larger bowl is mentioned by Jer 35:5, the King James Version "pot" (gabhia`). This same word is used of Joseph's cup (Ge 44:2 f): "Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth." As used at banquets it corresponds to the crater, from which the drinking cups (kocoth) were replenished. The material seems to have been uniformly silver. But see (4).
(4) Bowl is used in the King James Version to translation gabhia`, "the bowls made like almonds" (Ex 25:33 the King James Version), as applied to the "cups" (Revised Version), or calyxes, used to ornament the golden candlestick (see TABERNACLE). It seems to have been an elastic term.
(5) The bowl of Zec 4:3 (gullah, found also in 5:2 correct text), is represented as the receptacle for oil in the candlestick of the prophet's vision. It is likewise used of "the lamp of life" (Ec 12:6) and to designate the bowl- shaped capitals of Jachin and Boaz (1Ki 7:41,42; 2Ch 4:12,13).
(6) Bowl is found in Isa 51:17,22 the Revised Version (British and American), "bowl of the cup" (the King James Version "dregs of the cup"). Some think the second word here (qubba`ath koc) is a gloss to explain the unusual preceding word.
(7) In Re where the King James Version has "vial" (phiale) the Revised Version (British and American) has "bowl."
See BASIN.
George B. Eager
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.