was "a wicker basket," originally containing a certain measure of capacity, Mat 14:20, Mat 16:9, Mar 6:43 (RV, "basketfuls"); Mar 8:19, Luk 9:17, Luk 13:8 in some mss.; Joh 6:13.
<2,,4711, spuris>
or sphuris, signifies "something round, twisted or folded together" (connected with speira, "anything rolled into a circle;" Eng., "sphere"); hence a reed basket, plaited, a capacious kind of hamper, sometimes large enough to hold a man, Mat 15:37, Mat 16:10, Mar 8:8, Mar 8:20 (RV, "basketfuls"); Act 9:25.
<3,,4553, sargane>
denotes (a) "a braided rope or band," (b) "a large basket made of ropes, or a wicker "basket" made of entwined twigs, 2Co 11:33. That the "basket" in which Paul was let down from a window in Damascus is spoken of by Luke as a spuris, and by Paul himself as a sargane, is quite consistent, the two terms being used for the same article.
