Word study

Basket

6 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: basket, baskets. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “basket” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • סַל salbaskettranslated this way 15 times of its 15 uses · Strong’s H5536Noun  ·  Translated: basket 13, baskets 2

    Genesis 40:16 When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.

    Exodus 29:3 put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.

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  • דּוּד dûdpot, jartranslated this way 5 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H1731Noun  ·  Translated: basket 3, baskets 2, kettle 1, kettles 1

    2 Kings 10:7 And when the letter arrived, they took the sons of the king and slaughtered all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

    Psalm 81:6 “I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

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  • אֵיפָה êphâhephahtranslated this way 5 times of its 38 uses · Strong’s H374Noun  ·  Translated: ephah 27, basket 4, per ephah 3

    Zechariah 5:6 “What is it?” I asked. And he replied, “A measuring basket is going forth.” Then he continued, “This is their iniquity in all the land.”

    Zechariah 5:7 And behold, the cover of lead was raised, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket.

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  • טֶנֶא ṭenebaskettranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s H2935Noun  ·  Translated: basket 4

    Deuteronomy 26:2 you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

    Deuteronomy 26:4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

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  • תֵּבָה têbâharktranslated this way 2 times of its 28 uses · Strong’s H8392Noun  ·  Translated: ark 26, basket 2

    Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

    Exodus 2:5 Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.

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  • כְּלוּב kelûbbasket, cagetranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s H3619Noun  ·  Translated: basket 2, Like cages 1

    Amos 8:1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

    Amos 8:2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • μόδιος módiosa dry measure, nearly two English gallonstranslated this way 3 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G3426Noun  ·  Translated: basket 3

    Matthew 5:15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. Instead, they set it on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

    Mark 4:21 Jesus also said to them, “Does anyone bring in a lamp to put it under a basket or under a bed? Doesn’t he set it on a stand?

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.