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BOWL

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 (Judges 5:25; compare Arabic leben), and the bowl into which Gideon wrung the water from his fleece (Judges 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" (Numbers 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 Jeremiah 35:5, the King James Version "pot" (gabhia`). This same word is used of Joseph's cup (Genesis 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" (Exodus 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 Zechariah 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" (Ecclesiastes 12:6) and to designate the bowl-shaped capitals of Jachin and Boaz (1 Kings 7:41, 42 2 Chronicles 4:12, 13).

(6) Bowl is found in Isaiah 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

Greek

5357. phiale -- a (shallow) bowl
... a (shallow) bowl. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: phiale Phonetic
Spelling: (fee-al'-ay) Short Definition: a shallow and flat bowl Definition: a ...
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5165. trublion -- a bowl, dish
... a bowl, dish. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: trublion Phonetic Spelling:
(troob'-lee-on) Short Definition: a platter Definition: a deep dish ...
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3953. paropsis -- a side dish of delicacies
... a side dish of delicacies. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: paropsis
Phonetic Spelling: (par-op-sis') Short Definition: a bowl, dish, platter ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4219. mizraq -- bowl, basin
... 4218, 4219. mizraq. 4220 . bowl, basin. Transliteration: mizraq Phonetic
Spelling: (miz-rawk') Short Definition: bowl. Word Origin ...
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1543. gullah -- a basin, bowl
... 1542, 1543. gullah. 1544 . a basin, bowl. Transliteration: gullah Phonetic
Spelling: (gool-law') Short Definition: bowls. ... bowl, pommel, spring. ...
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5602. sephel -- a bowl
... 5601, 5602. sephel. 5603 . a bowl. Transliteration: sephel Phonetic
Spelling: (say'-fel) Short Definition: bowl. Word Origin of ...
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1531. gol -- bowl
... 1530, 1531. gol. 1532 . bowl. Transliteration: gol Phonetic Spelling: (gole)
Short Definition: bowl. ... bowl From galal; a cup for oil (as round) -- bowl. ...
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4518. menaqqith -- a sacrificial bowl
... 4517, 4518. menaqqith. 4519 . a sacrificial bowl. Transliteration: menaqqith
Phonetic Spelling: (men-ak-keeth') Short Definition: bowls. ... bowl. ...
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3713a. kephor -- a bowl
... a bowl. Transliteration: kephor Short Definition: bowls. Word Origin from an unused
word Definition a bowl NASB Word Usage bowls (5), each bowl (2). ...
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101. aggan -- a bowl, basin
... 100, 101. aggan. 102 . a bowl, basin. Transliteration: aggan Phonetic
Spelling: (ag-gawn') Short Definition: basins. Word Origin ...
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1375. gabia -- a cup, bowl
... 1374, 1375. gabia. 1376 . a cup, bowl. Transliteration: gabia Phonetic
Spelling: (gheb-ee'-ah) Short Definition: cups. Word Origin ...
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3713. kphowr -- a bowl
... 3712, 3713. kphowr. 3713a . a bowl. Transliteration: kphowr Phonetic Spelling:
(kef-ore') Short Definition: bason. bason, hoary frost ...
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5592. caph -- a basin, goblet
... caph. 5592a . a basin, goblet. Transliteration: caph Phonetic Spelling: (saf)
Short Definition: bason. bason, bowl, cup, door post, gate, post, threshold ...
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Library

Letter ix. To Titus, Hierarch, Asking by Letter what is the House ...
... LETTER IX. To Titus, Hierarch, asking by letter what is the house of wisdom,
what the bowl, and what are its meats and drinks? SECTION I. ...
/.../dionysius/letters of dionysius the areopagite/letter ix to titus hierarch.htm

I Will Lay Hold Upon Thee and Bring Thee into My Mother's House ...
... 2. I will lay hold upon thee and bring thee into my mother's house; there thou shalt
teach me, and I will give thee a bowl of spiced wine, and new wine of my ...
//christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/2 i will lay hold.htm

"Not by Might, nor by Power"
... And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon
the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 48 not by might.htm

The Source of Power
... And I said, I have looked, and behold, a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon
the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the source of power.htm

Choosing the Tens
... Presently she removed the fowl and forked it off the spit into a capacious
earthenware bowl near by. ... Deborah pointed to the smoking bowl. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter i choosing the tens.htm

Things Unknown
... with basins to the rich people in the parish, and beg bread and other victuals of
them; and the rule was, that every gentleman was to fill the bowl that was ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 46 1900/things unknown.htm

The Story of Jacob
... Once, when Esau came home, hungry and tired from hunting in the fields, he saw that
Jacob had a bowl of something that he had just cooked for dinner. ...
/.../marshall/the wonder book of bible stories/the story of jacob.htm

The Mystery of the vision of Zechariah.
... And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon
the top of it....And two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the ...
/.../chapter vi the mystery of the.htm

The Annunciation of St. John the Baptist
... before the admission of worshippers but to bring out the lamb, once again to make
sure of its fitness for sacrifice, to water it from a golden bowl, and then ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter iii the annunciation of.htm

Zion Awakened
... Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, Which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the
cup of his fury; Thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and ...
/.../various/select masterpieces of biblical literature/zion awakened.htm

Easton's Bible Dictionary

The sockets of the lamps of the golden candlestick of the tabernacle are called bowls (Exodus 25:31, 33, 34; 37:17, 19, 20); the same word so rendered being elsewhere rendered "cup" (Genesis 44:2, 12, 16), and wine "pot" (Jeremiah 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 (Zechariah 4:2, 3); so also are the vessels used for libations (Exodus 25:29; 37:16).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc.

2. (n.) Specifically, a drinking vessel for wine or other spirituous liquors; hence, convivial drinking.

3. (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

4. (n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon.

5. (n.) A ball of wood or other material used for rolling on a level surface in play; a ball of hard wood having one side heavier than the other, so as to give it a bias when rolled.

6. (n.) An ancient game, popular in Great Britain, played with biased balls on a level plat of greensward.

7. (n.) The game of tenpins or bowling.

8. (v. t.) To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball.

9. (v. t.) To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels; as, we were bowled rapidly along the road.

10. (v. t.) To pelt or strike with anything rolled.

11. (v. i.) To play with bowls.

12. (v. i.) To roll a ball on a plane, as at cricket, bowls, etc.

13. (v. i.) To move rapidly, smoothly, and like a ball; as, the carriage bowled along.

Thesaurus

Bowl (44 Occurrences)
... drinking. 3. (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold. 4.
(n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon. 5 ...
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Bowl-full (1 Occurrence)
Bowl-full. Bowlful, Bowl-full. Bowls . Multi-Version Concordance
Bowl-full (1 Occurrence). Judges 6:38 And it was so ...
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Bowl-shaped (4 Occurrences)
Bowl-shaped. Bowls, Bowl-shaped. Bowman . Multi-Version Concordance
Bowl-shaped (4 Occurrences). 1 Kings 7:20 There ...
/b/bowl-shaped.htm - 7k

Charger (17 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A bowl or deep dish. The silver vessels given by
the heads of the tribes for the services of the tabernacle ...
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Platter (20 Occurrences)
... Numbers 7:13 and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel ...
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Pour (137 Occurrences)
... Revelation 16:2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became
a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and ...
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Lamp (45 Occurrences)
... the wicked shall be put out" (Job 21:17 Proverbs 13:9; and perhaps Job 18:6). The
early Canaanite or Amorite lamp was a shallow, saucer-like bowl with rounded ...
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Dish (54 Occurrences)
... In Judges 6:38 the same Hebrew word is rendered "bowl.". ... 1. (n.) A vessel, as a
platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table. ...
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Shekel (37 Occurrences)
... Numbers 7:13 and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one
hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel ...
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Whereof (94 Occurrences)
... Numbers 7:13 and his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred
and thirty 'shekels', one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the ...
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Bible Concordance

Bowl (44 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
(See NIV)

Matthew 26:23 "The one who has dipped his fingers in the bowl with me," He answered, "is the man who will betray me.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Mark 4:21 He said to them, "Is the lamp brought to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn't it put on a stand?
(See NIV)

Mark 14:20 He answered them, "It is one of the twelve, he who dips with me in the dish.
(See NAS NIV)

Luke 11:33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
(See NIV)

John 19:29 Now a vessel full of vinegar was set there; so they put a sponge full of the vinegar on hyssop, and held it at his mouth.
(See RSV)

Revelation 16:2 The first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth, and it became a harmful and evil sore on the people who had the mark of the beast, and who worshiped his image.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man. Every living thing in the sea died.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:4 The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:8 The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:10 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrise.
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 16:17 The seventh poured out his bowl into the air. A loud voice came forth out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"
(WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 18:6 Give back to her as she has given; repay her in accordance with her doings, twice as much; in the bowl that she has mixed, mix twice as much for her.
(WEY)

Numbers 7:13 and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:19 He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:25 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:31 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:37 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:43 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:49 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:55 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:61 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:67 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:73 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:79 gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Numbers 7:85 each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Deuteronomy 28:5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
(See NAS)

Deuteronomy 28:17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.
(See NAS)

Judges 5:25 He asked water and she gave him milk, she brought him curds in a lordly bowl.
(DBY JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 6:38 It was so; for he rose up early on the next day, and pressed the fleece together, and wrung the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Kings 17:12 She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die."
(See NAS)

1 Kings 17:14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'"
(See NAS)

1 Kings 17:16 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah.
(See NAS)

2 Kings 2:20 He said, "Bring me a new jar, and put salt in it." They brought it to him.
(See RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 28:17 and the forks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ecclesiastes 12:6 before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Song of Songs 7:2 Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, that have drunk at the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
(WEB ASV RSV)

Isaiah 51:22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
(WEB ASV RSV)

Zechariah 4:2 He said to me, "What do you see?" I said, "I have seen, and behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zechariah 4:3 and two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zechariah 9:15 Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
(Root in WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Bowl

Bowl: Figurative

Bowl: Made of Gold for the Tabernacle

Bowl: Made of Gold of Silver

Bowl: Made of Gold: Temple

Bowl: Stamped "Holiness to the Lord"

Related Terms

Bowl-full (1 Occurrence)

Bowl-shaped (4 Occurrences)

Charger (17 Occurrences)

Platter (20 Occurrences)