Box

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the dwarf box (B. suffruticosa), is much used for borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.

(2): (n.) A receptacle or case of any firm material and of various shapes.

(3): (n.) The quantity that a box contain.

(4): (n.) A space with a few seats partitioned off in a theater, or other place of public amusement.

(5): (n.) A chest or any receptacle for the deposit of money; as, a poor box; a contribution box.

(6): (n.) A small country house.

(7): (n.) A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.

(8): (n.) An axle box, journal box, journal bearing, or bushing.

(9): (n.) A chamber or section of tube in which a valve works; the bucket of a lifting pump.

(10): (n.) The driver's seat on a carriage or coach.

(11): (n.) A present in a box; a present; esp. a Christmas box or gift.

(12): (n.) The square in which the pitcher stands.

(13): (n.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.

(14): (n.) A blow on the head or ear with the hand.

(15): (v. t.) To inclose in a box.

(16): (v. t.) To furnish with boxes, as a wheel.

(17): (v. t.) To inclose with boarding, lathing, etc., so as to bring to a required form.

(18): (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist, especially to strike on the ear, or on the side of the head.

(19): (v. i.) To fight with the fist; to combat with, or as with, the hand or fist; to spar.

(20): (v. t.) To boxhaul.

King James Dictionary

BOX, n. Lat. buxus, the tree, and pyxis, a box Gr. a box, and the tree.

A coffer or chest, either of wood or metal. In general, the word box is used for a case of rough boards, or more slightly made than a chest,and used for the conveyance of goods. But the name is applied to cases of any size and of any materials as a wooden box, a tin box, an iron box, a strong box.

1. The quantity that a box contains as a box of quicksilver a box or rings. In some cases,the quantity called a box is fixed by custom in others,it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar. 2. A certain seat in a play-house, or in any public room. 3. The case which contains the mariner's compass. 4. A money chest. 5. A tree or shrub, constituting the genus buxus, used for bordering flower-beds. The African box is the myrsine. 6. A blow on the head with the hand, or on the ear with the open hand. 7. A cylindrical hollow iron used in wheels, in which the axle-tree runs. Also, a hollow tube in a pump, closed with a valve.

BOX, To fight with the fist to combat with the hand or fist.

BOX, To inclose in a box also, to furnish with boxes, as a wheel or block.

1. To strike with the hand or fist, especially the ear or side of the head. 2. To rehearse the several points of the compass in their proper order. 3. To make a hole or cut in a tree, to procure the sap as, to box a maple. 4. To sail round.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BOX . 1 . The nature of the prophet’s ‘box of oil’ (  2 Kings 9:1;   2 Kings 9:3 RV [Note: Revised Version.] vial , as   1 Samuel 10:1 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ) is unknown. Was it another name for ‘the born of oil’ of   1 Kings 1:39 ? 2 . For the ‘alabaster box’ (  Matthew 26:7 ||, RV [Note: Revised Version.] cruse ) see Jewels and Precious Stones, ad fin . 3 . For Judas’ money-box (  John 12:6;   John 13:29 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘bag,’ RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘box’) see Bag. 4 . Nothing is known of the perfume boxes (lit. ‘houses, i.e. receptacles of perfume [or perhaps ointment]’) of the Jerusalem ladies (  Isaiah 3:20 RV [Note: Revised Version.] and AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘tablets’).

A. R. S. Kennedy.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἀλάβαστρον (Strong'S #211 — Noun Neuter — alabastron — al-ab'-as-tron )

"an alabaster vessel," is translated in the AV of  Matthew 26:7;  Mark 14:3;  Luke 7:37 , "box," RV, "cruse." The breaking refers to the seal, not to the box or cruse. See Cruse.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Isaiah 41:19;  Isaiah 60:13; rather the Scherbin , a cedar remarkable for its small cones and upright branches; Teasshur from Ashar , "to be upright". Some read this in  Ezekiel 27:6, instead of "the Ashurites." Maurer translated: "they have made thy benches of ivory inlaid in the daughter of cedars," or the best boxwood. The box when not trimmed grows often 25 feet high. The wood, hard and firm, so as to be the only European wood that sinks in water, is used now especially for inlaying and wood engraving, and takes a fine polish.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Mark 14:3 1 Samuel 10:1 2 Kings 9:1

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Earthenware, or glass, flask or bottle for oil or perfumes.  2 Kings 9:1,3 . See Alabaster

Holman Bible Dictionary

 2 Kings 9:1 Mark 14:3

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Matthew 26:7 (See full description under "ALABASTER").

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

The passages in which this word occurs are  2 Kings 9:1 ,  2 Kings 9:3 (Hebrew pakh , "cruet," "flask," the Revised Version (British and American) vial) and the synoptic passages  Matthew 26:7 the King James Version;   Mark 14:3 the King James Version;   Luke 7:37 the King James Version (Greek alábastron ). "Perfume-boxes" are mentioned in  Isaiah 3:20; in the New Testament passages the Revised Version (British and American) renders "alabaster cruse." "Alabaster" was a white stone much used in ornamentation; and out of it small vessels we re made for holding precious ointment. "She brake the cruse" ( Mark 14:3 ), i.e. the seal, not the vessel.

In  Isaiah 41:19 and   Isaiah 60:13 , "box" is found in connection with "tree," as "box-tree" (which see).