Basket

A large container made of woven material like grass or reeds, used for carrying or storing various items such as food.

Large woven basket for storing and transporting goods
Large woven basket for storing and transporting goods (© Habib M’henni, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Basket

About Basket

The basket was a container made of woven material, usually grass or reeds. Baskets could vary widely in size, depending on their intended use. Baskets were used for carrying a great variety of things, including food and produce and even for moving soil from one place to another.

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Key References

Matthew 14:20

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Matthew 16:9

Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Mark 6:43

and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.

Acts 9:25

One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.

All Scripture References (36)

Genesis (3)
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.

Genesis 40:17

In the top basket were all sorts of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

Genesis 40:18

Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.

Exodus (3)
Exodus 29:3

put them in a basket, and present them in the basket, along with the bull and the two rams.

Exodus 29:23

along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

Exodus 29:32

At the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket.

Leviticus (3)
Leviticus 8:2

“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,

Leviticus 8:26

And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.

Leviticus 8:31

And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’

Numbers (3)
Numbers 6:15

together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.

Numbers 6:17

He shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.

Numbers 6:19

And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.

Deuteronomy (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,

Deuteronomy 28:5

Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Judges (1)
Judges 6:19

So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.

2 Kings (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.

Psalms (1)
Psalm 81:7

You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Jeremiah (3)
Jeremiah 5:27

Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

Jeremiah 24:1

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

Jeremiah 24:2

One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

Amos (2)
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.”

Matthew (4)
Matthew 14:20

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Matthew 15:37

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Matthew 16:9

Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Matthew 16:10

Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Mark (4)
Mark 6:43

and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.

Mark 8:8

The people ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Mark 8:19

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Twelve,” they answered.

Mark 8:20

“And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you collect?” “Seven,” they said.

Luke (1)
Luke 9:17

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

John (1)
John 6:13

So they collected them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

Acts (1)
Acts 9:25

One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.

2 Corinthians (1)
2 Corinthians 11:33

But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.