Baggage
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
"to furnish with things necessary;" in the Middle Voice, "to furnish for oneself;" it was used of equipping baggage animals for a journey; in Acts 21:15 , RV, it is translated "we took up our baggage" (AV, "we took up our carriages"). The form is the 1st aorist participle, and lit. means "having made ready (the things that were necessary for the journey)."
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (n.) A romping, saucy girl.
(2): (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
(3): (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
(4): (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
(5): (n.) Trashy talk.
(6): (n.) A man of bad character.
(7): (n.) Purulent matter.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
bag´ā̇j : (1) כּלי , kelı̄ , "the impedimenta of an army"): "David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage" ( 1 Samuel 17:22 ); "at Michmash he layeth up his baggage" ( Isaiah 10:28 ). The American Standard Revised Version gives baggage for "stuff" at 1 Samuel 10:22; 1 Samuel 25:13; 1 Samuel 30:24 . (2) ἀποσκευή , aposkeuḗ ̌ : "Beside the baggage" (Judith 7:2), "a great ado and much baggage" (1 Macc 9:35, 39), "the women and the children and also the baggage" (the King James Version "and other baggage"; 2 Macc 12:21). (3) ἀποσκευάζομαι , aposkeuázomai , "to make ready for leaving," "to pack up baggage"): "We took up (made ready, Revised Version margin) our baggage" ( Acts 21:15 , the King James Version "carriages"), i.e. what they could carry - E nglish: "luggage"; but others understand the term of the loading of the baggage animals.
