5227 basket
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Flat, open baskets to carry bread

In the chief baker's dream

See also Genesis 40:16-18

For offering unleavened bread

Exodus 29:23 pp Leviticus 8:26 See also Exodus 29:2-3 pp Leviticus 8:1-2; Numbers 6:15-17

Baskets used to hold food

To store household provisions

Deuteronomy 28:5 Signifying the continued provision of food for the household. See also Deuteronomy 28:17

To collect food

Matthew 14:20 pp Mark 6:43 pp Luke 9:17 pp John 6:13 See also Matthew 13:48; Matthew 15:37 pp Mark 8:8; Matthew 16:9-10 pp Mark 8:19-20

Baskets used to carry fruit

Jeremiah 24:1-2 See also Deuteronomy 23:24; Psalm 81:6; Amos 8:1-2

Other uses of baskets

Exodus 2:3-5 Moses is put into a papyrus basket; Deuteronomy 26:2-4 firstfruits presented in a basket; 2 Kings 10:7 the heads of Ahab's sons sent to Jehu in baskets; Zechariah 5:6-11 The wickedness of Jerusalem is removed, figuratively, to Babylon in a basket.

Paul is lowered from the wall of Damascus in a basket:

Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:33

See also

2351  Christ, miracles
4404  food
4418  bread
4440  fig-tree
4642  fish
5222  baking



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