Scrip

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("Shepherd's bag".) ( Yalquwt ),  1 Samuel 17:40;  2 Kings 4:42 ( Tsiqlon ) margin. In New Testament, the leather "wallet" ( Fra ) slung on the shoulder for carrying food for a journey; distinct from the "purse" ( Zone , literally, "girdle"; Balantion , "small bag for money"):  Matthew 10:9-10;  Luke 10:4;  Luke 12:33. Unlike other travelers, the twelve and the seventy, when sent forth, were wholly dependent on God, having no provision for their journey; at other times they carried provisions in a bag and purse ( Luke 22:35-36;  John 12:6;  Mark 8:14-16). The English "scrip," originally "script," related to "scrap," was used for food.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A small writing, certificate, or schedule; a piece of paper containing a writing.

(2): ( n.) A preliminary certificate of a subscription to the capital of a bank, railroad, or other company, or for a share of other joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

(3): ( n.) Paper fractional currency.

(4): ( n.) A small bag; a wallet; a satchel.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Scrip. The Hebrew word thus translated appears in  1 Samuel 17:40, as a synonym for The Bag In Which The Shepherds Of Palestine Carried Their Food Or Other Necessities. The scrip of the Galilean peasants was of leather, used especially to carry their food on a journey, and slung over their shoulders.  Matthew 10:10;  Mark 6:8;  Luke 9:3;  Luke 22:35. The English word "scrip" is probably connected with scrape, scrap, and was used in like manner for articles of food.

King James Dictionary

Scrip n. This belongs to the root of gripe, our vulgar grab, that is, to seize or press.

A small bag a wallet a satchel. David put five smooth stones in a scrip.  1 Samuel 17 .  Matthew 10 .

SCRIP, n. L. scriptum, scriptio, from scribo, to write.

A small writing, certificate or schedule a piece of paper containing a writing.

Bills of exchange cannot pay our debts abroad, till scrips of paper can be made current coin.

A certificate of stock subscribed to a bank or other company, or of a share of other joint property, is called in America a scrip.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 1 Samuel 17:40

In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr. pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin ( Matthew 10:10;  Mark 6:8;  Luke 9:3;  10:4 ). The name "scrip" is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A bag, or satchel, often made of the skin of a kid, stripped off whole, and tanned by a simple process. They were slung over the shoulder.  1 Samuel 17:40;  Luke 22:35,36; etc.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A bag or wallet, in which travellers carried a portion of food, or some small articles of convenience,  1 Samuel 17:40;  Matthew 10:10 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

Bag

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SCRIP . See Bag.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

SCRIP. —See Wallet.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

an old Saxon name for satchel (Bible Educator, 4:209). is used in the A.V. as a rendering of the Heb. יַלְקוּט , Yalkut (from לָקַט , to collect; Sept. Συλλογή ), in  1 Samuel 17:40, where it appears as a synonym for כְּלִי חָרֹעִים ( Τὸ Κάδιον Τὸ Ποιμενικόν ) , the bag in which the shepherds of Palestine carried their food or other necessaries. In Symmachus and the Vulg. pera, and in the marginal reading of A.V. "scrip," appear in  2 Kings 4:42 for the צִקְלוֹן , Tsiklon, which in the text of the A. 57. is translated Husk (comp. Gesen. s.v.). The Ππήρα of the New Test. appears in our Lord's command to his disciples as distinguished from the Ζώνη ( Matthew 10:10;  Mark 6:8) and the Βαλλάντιον ( Luke 10:4;  Luke 22:35-36), and its nature and use are sufficiently defined by the lexicographers. The English word has a meaning precisely equivalent to that of the Greek. Connected, as it probably is, with Scrape, Scrap, the scrip was used for articles of food. It belonged especially to shepherds ( A S You Like It, act iii, sc. 2). It was made of leather (Milton, Comus, 626). The later sense of Scrip as a written certificate is, it need hardly be said, of different origin or meaning; the word, on its first use in English, was written Script (Chaucer). The scrip of the ancient peasants was of leather, used especially to carry their food on a journey ( Ἡ Θηκὴ Τῶν Ἄρτων , Suid.; Δέρμα Τι Ἀρτόφορον , Ammon.), and slung over their shoulders. In the Talmudic writers the word תרמיל is used as denoting the same thing, and is named as part of the equipment both of shepherds in their common life and of proselytes coming on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Lightfoot, Hot. Heb. on  Matthew 10:10). The Ζώνη , on the other hand, was the loose girdle, in the folds of which money was often kept for the sake of safety, (See Girdle); the Βαλλάντιον ( Sacculus, Vulg.), was the smaller bag used exclusively for money ( Luke 12:33). (See Bag).

Lightfoot, on the authority of rabbi Nathan, describes the scrip as "a kind of vesture, which was a little upper garment in which were many places sewed, where they put anything they met with that they had occasion to use; so that this was a kind of apron with divers purses or pockets made in it, in which the Jews put their necessaries as we do in our pockets, Which apron they could readily put off or on, wear or lay aside, as they saw occasion. As in such an apron they had their pockets, so in the scarf or girdle wherewithal they girded their undercoats they had their purses. Their girdles were ordinarily of linen, and in them they kept their money when they travelled or went from home on their business" (Temple Service, 9:121). (See Purse).

Notwithstanding the great hospitality of the Orientals, travellers cannot always calculate upon obtaining a supply of food in their cottages, for most of the peasants are so poor that they can rarely afford to keep more provisions than will meet the immediate wants of their families. Pedestrian travellers and shepherds are therefore accustomed to take with them a satchel, or wallet, in which they carry some dry food and other little articles likely to be useful on a journey. It was in such a bag that David carried the pebble with which he smote the boasting champion of the Philistines ( 1 Samuel 17:40). When Christ sent forth his apostles, he forbade them to provide themselves with these satchels; and nothing can more forcibly show the completeness of their dependence on Divine Providence, while executing their mission, than their neglecting to supply themselves with what all other travellers would have regarded as an indispensable requisite ( Matthew 10:10;  Mark 6:8;  Luke 9:3; comp.  Luke 22:35-36). They were to appear in ever), town or village as men unlike all other travellers, freely doing without that which others looked on as essential. The fresh rule given in  Luke 22:35-36, perhaps, also, the facts that Judas was the bearer of the bag ( Γλωσσόκομον ,  John 12:6), and that when the disciples were without bread they were ashamed of their forgetfulness ( Mark 8:14-16), show that the command was not intended to be permanent. The scrip is often made of haircloth, and is of various forms. In Palestine, however, it is usually made of leather (Porter, Damascus, 2:109). In the south of Spain, where many of the usages introduced by the Mohammedan conquerors are still retained, the scrip is usually of goat-skin, and is generally carried over the shoulder. The purse, which some inaccurate commentators have confounded with the scrip, was always Suspended from the girdle. A kind of sanctity is attributed to the scrip by some of the Eastern Jews, as it preserves their food from being polluted by being brought into con tact with those whom they are taught to regard as unclean or profane (see Hackett, Illustrations Of Scripture, p. 91). Thomson found the farmers, in the vicinity of the Lake of Gennesaret, carrying wallets made of the skins of kids stripped off whole and roughly tanned; and he supposes these to be the scrip of the Bible (Land and Book, i, 532 sq.).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

skrip  : A word connected with "scrap," and meaning a "bag," either as made from a "scrap" (of skin) or as holding "scraps" (of food, etc.). the King James Version has "scrip" in   1 Samuel 17:40 and   1 Samuel 17:6 times in New Testament; the English Revised Version has "wallet" in the New Testament, but retains "script" in   1 Samuel 17:40; the American Standard Revised Version has "wallet" throughout. See Bag .