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For holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. This unified study connects 4 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work

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Study overview

Study at a glance

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H0712, H6378, H8392
Hebrew
אַרְגַּז · ʼargâz

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

פַּךְ

H6378
Transliteration
pak
Pronunciation
pak
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
3

Glosses

box, vial.

Lexicon definition

a flask (from which a liquid may flow)

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

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For holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (pak) used for it is more appropriately rendered "vial" in 1 Sam. 10:1, and should also be so rendered in 2 Kings 9:1, where alone else it occurs.

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

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