Basket
κόφινοςStrong’s G2894kophinos
Appears in 6 verses of the New Testament
In short
Kophinos is the Greek word usually translated “hand-baskets”. It appears in 6 verses of the New Testament.
“And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.”
Meaning
Usually translated “hand-baskets”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- hand-baskets 6
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 2
- Mark 2
- Luke 1
- John 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 16:9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
- Mark 6:43And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
- Mark 8:19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
- Luke 9:17And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
- John 6:13Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
Greek dictionary
κόφινος kophinos · basket
κόφινος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Jdg.6:19 (סַל), Psa.81:6 (דּוּד)* ;] a basket, probably of wicker-work, such as were carried by Jews for food: Mat.14:20 16:9, Mrk.6:43 8:19 9:17 13:8, Jhn.6:13 (cf. σφυρίς).† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “basket” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
B'ASKET, noun
- A domestic vessel made of twigs, rushes, splinters or other flexible things interwoven.
- The contents of a basket; as much as a basket will contain; as, a basket of medlars is two bushels.
All definitions and other forms of “basket”
B'ASKET, verb transitive
To put in a basket
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.