Cruse

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CRUSE.—See House, § 9.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


tsappachath. Probably like the vessels still made at Gaza; a blue, clay, porous globular vessel, about nine inches wide, a neck three long, a handle below the neck, and a straight spout, with an opening the size of a straw (1Sa_26:11-12; 1Sa_26:16; 1Ki_19:6; 1Ki_17:12; 1Ki_17:14; 1Ki_17:16). The bakbok, from the gurgling noise in pouring (1Ki_14:3). Tsellachah, from a root to sprinkle; a flat saucer or dish (2Ki_2:20). In Pro_19:24, "a slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom" (tsallachath, the cruse or dish like cavity in the bosom, or else translated "in the dish".)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Cruse. A small vessel for holding water, such as was carried by Saul, when on his night expedition after David, 1Sa_26:11-12; 1Sa_26:16, and by Elijah. 1Ki_19:6.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


kroos: A small earthen vessel or flask, usually for holding liquids: צפחת, cappaḥath; as water, 1Sa_26:11, 1Sa_26:12, 1Sa_26:16; 1Ki_19:6; it being porous, the liquid is kept cool; also for holding oil, as in 1Ki_17:12, 1Ki_17:14, 1Ki_17:16.
In 1Ki_14:3 (?a cruse of honey?) the word בּקבּוּק, baḳbūḳ, would be better rendered ?bottle,? doubtless deriving its name from the gurgling sound of issuing liquids. In 2Ki_2:20 צלחית, celōḥı̄th, is not a jar or flask, but a dish, or platter, for salt or other substances.
In the New Testament a small jar or vial, ἀλάβαστρον, alábastron, ?alabaster cruse? or flask, for holding ointment; not ?box? as in the King James Version (Mat_26:7; Mar_14:3; Luk_7:37; compare 1Sa_10:1; 2Ki_9:1, 2Ki_9:3, where ?box? in the King James Version is used for ?vial? the Revised Version (British and American)).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Cruse (1Sa_26:11; 1Ki_14:3; 2Ki_2:20). This now obsolete English word denotes a small vessel for holding water or other liquids. Such are noticed under Bottle, Dish.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Cruse
This now obsolete English word denotes a small vessel for holding water or other liquids. Three Hebrew words are thus translated in the A. V. SEE CUP.
1. צִפִּחִת, tsappach'ath (lit. something spread out), is applied to a utensil (usually considered a flask, but more probably a shallow cup) for holding water (1Sa_26:11-12; 1Sa_26:16 1Ki_19:6) or oil (1Ki_17:12; 1Ki_17:14; 1Ki_17:16). Some clew to the nature of this vessel is perhaps afforded by its mention as being full of water at the head of Saul when on his night expedition after David (1Sa_26:11-12; 1Sa_26:16), and also of Elijah (1Ki_19:6). In a similar case in the present day this would be a globular vessel of blue porous clay — the ordinary Gaza pottery — about nine inches diameter, with a neck of about three inches long, a small handle below the neck, and opposite the handle a straight spout, with an orifice about the size of a straw, through which the water is drunk or sucked. The form is common also in Spain, and will be familiar to many from pictures of Spanish life. A similar globular vessel probably contained the oil of the widow of Zarephath (1Ki_17:12; 1Ki_17:14; 1Ki_17:16). For the “box” or “horn” in which the consecrated oil was carried on special occasions, SEE OIL.
Some writers have supposed that the cruse of water mentioned in the first passage (when Saul's life was spared by David) was a clepsydra, or one of those water-watch measures used by the ancients, by which timewas measured by the falling of water from one vessel into another, the undermost vessel containing a piece of cork, the different altitudes of which, as it gradually rose upon the rising water, marked the progress of time. But we can hardly suppose that such time measures were known at that early period. It is usual for persons in the East in the present day, when they travel, to take with them a flask for holding water, and also, when they sleep in the open air, to have a small vessel of water within their reach (Thomson, Land and Book, 2:21). These flasks are of various forms, and are sometimes covered with a wicker-case, SEE DISH.
2. בִּקְבּוּק, bakbuk' (from the gurgling sound in emptying), perhaps a bottle (as it is translated in Jer_19:1; Jer_19:10) for holding any liquid, as honey (1Ki_14:3), but more probably a PITCHER SEE PITCHER (q.v.).
3. צְלֹחַית, tselochith' (lit. that into which fluids are poured out), a platter (2Ki_2:20). This was probably a flat metal saucer of the form still common in the East. It occurs in 2Ki_2:20, “cruse;” 2Ki_21:13, “dish;” 2Ch_35:13, “pan';” also Pro_19:24; Pro_26:15, where the figure is obscured by the choice of the word “bosom.” SEE PAN; SEE PLATTER, etc.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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