Topic
Purse
16 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Matthew 10:9Easton · Smith
Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,
- Mark 6:8Easton · Smith
And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:
- Luke 10:4Easton · Smith
Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man by the way.
- Luke 22:35Easton · Smith
And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
- Genesis 42:35Smith
¶ And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
- Deuteronomy 25:13Smith
¶ Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.
- Proverbs 1:14Smith
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
- Proverbs 7:20Smith
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
- Isaiah 3:24Smith
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
- Isaiah 46:6Smith
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
- Micah 6:11Smith
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
- Luke 12:33Smith
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
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- Luke 22:36 Easton
- Luke 22:38 Smith
- John 12:6 Smith
- John 13:29 Smith
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
(1.) Gr. balantion, a bag (Luke 10:4; 22:35, 36).
(2.) Gr. zone, properly a girdle (Matt. 10:9; Mark 6:8), a money-belt. As to our Lord’s sending forth his disciples without money in their purses, the remark has been made that in this “there was no departure from the simple manners of the country. At this day the farmer sets out on excursions quite as extensive without a para in his purse; and a modern Moslem prophet of Tarshisha thus sends forth his apostles over this identical region. No traveller in the East would hestitate to throw himself on the hospitality of any village.” Thomson’s Land and the Book. (See SCRIP.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 15 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 0 references
purs.
See BAG.
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.