In biblical times, containers played a crucial role in daily life and religious practices. They were used for storing, transporting, and preserving a variety of goods, including food, water, oil, and sacred items. The Bible references various types of containers, each serving specific purposes and often symbolizing deeper spiritual truths.

Types of Containers:

1. Jars and Pots:
· Earthenware Jars: Commonly used for storing water, oil, and grains. In 2 Kings 4:2-6, the widow's oil is miraculously multiplied in jars, demonstrating God's provision.
· Clay Pots: Jeremiah 18:4-6 uses the imagery of a potter and clay to illustrate God's sovereignty over Israel, emphasizing His ability to shape and reform His people.

2. Baskets:
· Baskets were used for carrying food and other items. In the New Testament, baskets are mentioned in the context of the feeding miracles. In Matthew 14:20, after feeding the five thousand, the disciples collected twelve baskets full of leftovers, symbolizing God's abundant provision.

3. Flasks and Bottles:
· Alabaster Flasks: Used for storing precious ointments and perfumes. In Matthew 26:7, a woman anoints Jesus with expensive perfume from an alabaster flask, signifying devotion and worship.
· Wineskins: Made from animal skins, these were used to store wine. Jesus uses the metaphor of new wine in new wineskins in Matthew 9:17 to illustrate the need for new structures to accommodate the new covenant.

4. Chests and Boxes:
· Ark of the Covenant: A sacred chest made of acacia wood, overlaid with gold, and used to house the tablets of the Law, Aaron's rod, and manna (Exodus 25:10-22). It symbolized God's presence and covenant with Israel.
· Offering Boxes: In 2 Kings 12:9, a chest is used to collect offerings for temple repairs, highlighting the importance of stewardship and generosity.

5. Cups and Bowls:
· Communion Cup: In the New Testament, the cup becomes a symbol of the new covenant in Christ's blood. During the Last Supper, Jesus shares the cup with His disciples, as recorded in Luke 22:20, signifying the sacrificial nature of His impending death.
· Bowls of Wrath: In Revelation 16, bowls are used to pour out God's wrath upon the earth, symbolizing divine judgment.

Symbolic Significance:

Containers in the Bible often carry symbolic meanings beyond their practical uses. They can represent God's provision, as seen in the widow's oil and the feeding of the multitudes. They also symbolize purity and devotion, as in the anointing of Jesus with perfume. Furthermore, containers like the Ark of the Covenant and the communion cup embody the presence and promises of God.

In a broader spiritual context, believers are sometimes likened to vessels or containers, meant to be filled with the Holy Spirit and used for God's purposes. In 2 Timothy 2:21, Paul writes, "If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work."

Overall, containers in the Bible serve as tangible reminders of God's interaction with humanity, His provision, and His expectations for His people.(n.) One who, or that which, contains.502. antlema -- a container to draw with
... a container to draw with. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: antlema
Phonetic Spelling: (ant'-lay-mah) Short Definition: a pail Definition: what is ...
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30. aggeion -- a vessel
... Definition: a vessel, flask. Word Origin from aggos Definition a vessel NASB
Word Usage flasks (1). vessel, container. From aggos (a pail ...
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3426. modios -- modius, a dry measure of one peck
... 3426 -- a container for goods holding up to eight liters (roughly two gallons);
a measure (the chief grain unit) equivalent to one peck (8.81L). ...
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4632. skeuos -- a vessel, implement, pl. goods
... goods NASB Word Usage article (2), container (1), goods (1), instrument (1), jar
(1), merchandise (1), object (3), property (2), sea anchor (1), someone (1 ...
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4138. pleroma -- fullness, a filling up
... completion, ie (subjectively) what fills (as contents, supplement, copiousness,
multitude), or (objectively) what is filled (as container, performance, period ...
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4323. mikal -- a brook, stream
... brook. From yakol; properly, a container, ie A streamlet -- brook. see HEBREW
yakol. 4322, 4323. mikal. 4324 . Strong's Numbers.
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3563. kowc -- a cup
... From an unused root meaning to hold together; a cup (as a container), often
figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl ...
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Whether Mutual Indwelling is an Effect of Love?
... vice versa. For that which is in another is contained in it. But the same
cannot be container and contents. Therefore love cannot ...
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Fifth Tractate. That the Intellectual Beings are not Outside the ...
... measure and not the measured; it is no peer of other entities to be found among
them; for thus, it and they alike would be included in some container and this ...
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Whether an Angel is in a Place?
... But an angel can neither be measured nor contained by a place, because the container
is more formal than the contained; as air with regard to water (Phys. ...
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Whether the Angels Know all Things by their Substance?
... Objection 3: Further, everything which is contained in another is there according
to the mode of the container. But an angel has an intellectual nature. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the angels know all.htm

Whether Charity is the Most Excellent of the virtues?
... are beneath the soul are more excellent in the soul than they are in themselves,
because a thing is contained according to the mode of the container (De Causis ...
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Whether the Intellectual virtues Remain after this Life?
... It is also contrary to reason, because intelligible species are contained by the
"possible" intellect immovably, according to the mode of their container. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the intellectual virtues remain.htm

Whether Christ Ascended Above all the Heavens?
... A place implies the notion of containing; hence the first container has
the formality of first place, and such is the first heaven. ...
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Whether the Sacraments of the New Law Contain Grace?
... Objection 1: It seems that the sacraments of the New Law do not contain grace.
For it seems that what is contained is in the container. ...
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Whether Several Angels Can be at the Same Time in the Same Place?
... Hence, since the angel is said to be in one place by the fact that his power touches
the place immediately by way of a perfect container, as was said [479](A[1 ...
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Whether the New Law is Contained in the Old?
... lesser. Therefore the New Law is not contained in the Old. Objection 3: Further,
who holds the container holds the contents. If, therefore ...
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Container (6 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Container (6 Occurrences). Mark 11:16 He would not
allow anyone to carry a container through the temple. (WEB). ...
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Containers (5 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 4:6 It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son,
"Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container...
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Jar (45 Occurrences)
... Luke 8:16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it
under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light ...
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Object (76 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Acts 10:11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him,
like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, (See NAS). ...
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Lowered (14 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Acts 10:11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to
him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, (See NAS). ...
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Descending (23 Occurrences)
... Acts 10:11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like
a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS ...
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Corners (56 Occurrences)
... Acts 10:11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like
a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS ...
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Sheet (9 Occurrences)
... Acts 10:11 He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like
a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT ...
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Contained (11 Occurrences)

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Flow (85 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 4:6 It happened, when the containers were full, that she said to her son,
"Bring me another container." He said to her, "There isn't another container...
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