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the carrying basket, borne in the hands (Ps. lxxxi. 7 [A. V. 6] II Kings x. 7 Jcr. xxiv. 2). It is used in Ps. lxxxi. 6 as a symbol of Egyptian bondage, connoting the basket in which the Israelites carried the clay for their bricks. This must therefore is





have

been a large shallow basket such as the ancient Egyptians used for the purpose (Wilkinson,

"Ancient Egyptians,"

i.

379).

The term "dud"

pot in which meat was boiled (I Sam. ii. 14), showing that not only the flatformed basket but also a pot-shaped one was known by this name. " Dud " may possibly be a general expression for vessels of various kinds. "Sal" is the term for the basket in which the Egyptian court baker had his confectionery, and which he carried on his head (Gen. xl. 16). It is also the usual term for the basket in which was placed the meat of the offering (Judges vi. 19), and likewise the unleavened is

applied

also

to

the

Basilisk Basnag-e

a bird-cage. It was therefore no doubt a coarsely woven basket with a cover, such as a fowler would use to carry home his captives. The word nopivog used in the New Testament (Matt. xiv. 20 and elsewhere) seems to have meant a specifically Jewish utensil (compare Juvenal, iii. 14, " Quorum cophinus fcenumque suppellex," and Talmudic nB'BD and HB1p; Jastrow, "Diet." s.v.). In " Corpus Inscriptionum Grsecarum," 1625, 46, the word denotes a Boeotian measure of about two gallons, from which fact a conclusion may perhaps be drawn as to the size of the basket. j.

jk.

Be.

I.

BASMATH,

daughter of King Solomon.

See

Bashemath.

BASNAGE, JACOB CHRISTIAN Basnage de Beauval)

also



Protestant

(called

pastor

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Baskets Used in Modern Palestine. (From the Merrill

Collection, Semitic

bread (Ex. xxix. 3; Lev. viii. 2; Num. vi. 15). It expressly stated that these unleavened cakes must be placed in such a basket and offered therein. " Sal " refers without doubt, therefore, to a small dish-shaped basket, perhaps of finer texture. Difis

from this was certainly the "tene," the large deep basket in which grain and other field-products were kept (Deut. xxviii. 5, 17), and the tithes transported to the sanctuary (Deut. xxvi. 2). Possibly this form of basket resembled that used by the Palestinian peasantry to-day for keeping wheat or oats it is made of clay and straw and called "habya." This has somewhat the shape of a jar at the top is the mouth into which grain is poured, and at the bottom a small orifice through which small quantities are taken out as wanted and the opening closed with a rag. The term icapraXkog, with which the Septuagint translates "tene," denotes a basket of the shape of an inverted cone. The term "kelub," finally, found in Amos viii. 1 for a fruit-basket, is used in Jcr. v. 27 ("cage," A. V. and R. V.) for ferent



Museum, Harvard

University.)

born at Rouen, France, Aug. 8, 1653; died in Holland Dec. 22, 1725. At the age of twenty-three he took charge of the Protestant Church of Rouen, succeeding Etienne Le Moine, who had been called to Leyden as professor of theology. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and the consequent suppression of the Reformed Church in his native city, Basnage was called in 1686 to the pastorate of the Walloon Church at Rotterdam; and in 1691, at the instance of his friend Heinsius, grand pensionary of

Holland, he was chosen pastor of the Temple of The

Hague.

Though Basnage acquired ful

diplomat

a reputation as a skil-

(see analysis of his letters of 1713

M. Levesque,

in

by

"Les Memoires de

Is a Skilful

l'Academie des Sciences et Lettres de Rouen," 1859, pp. 269 et seq.), his in-

Diplomat.

terest for the present article consists

in the fact that, like his friend Fontehe employed his leisure hours in writing on theology and on the history of religion. His works nelle,