Vial

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Revelation 5:8 (a) These golden receptacles are evidently pictures of the value our Lord places upon the worship and the prayers which ascend to GOD from the hearts of His children. None of the prayers are lost. They are kept as valuable treasures.

 Revelation 15:7 (a) These golden receptacles contain GOD's wrath. The lesson we learn is that the wrath of GOD is just as precious and valuable as His mercy and grace. We give just as much honor to the judge who properly punishes the guilty as we give when the innocent is set free. His wrath is preserved as a treasure in the golden casket. This wrath is poured out in the next chapter, verses  Revelation 16:1-2. (See also  Revelation 17:1).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

VIAL occurs in OT only in   1 Samuel 10:1 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , and   2 Kings 9:1;   2 Kings 9:3 RV [Note: Revised Version.] (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] box ) for an oil-flask. In NT, RV [Note: Revised Version.] has substituted ‘ bowl ’ for ‘vial’ throughout (  Revelation 5:8;   Revelation 15:7;   Revelation 16:1 ff.). The phialç was a flat vessel, resembling a saucer, specially used for pouring libations of wine upon the altar of a deity.

A. R. S. Kennedy.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Samuel 10:1  1 Samuel 5:8 1 Samuel 15:7 1 Samuel 16:17 1 Samuel 17:1 1 Samuel 21:9AnointOilVessels And Utensils

King James Dictionary

VI'AL, n. L. phiala. A phial a small bottle of thin glass, used particularly by apothecaries and druggists.

Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head.

 1 Samuel 10 .

Vials of God's wrath, in Scripture, are the execution of his wrath upon the wicked for their sins.  Revelation 16 .

VI'AL, To put in a vial.

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.

(2): ( v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

See Bowl.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

vı̄´al  : In modern English means "a tiny flask." The word appears in English Versions of the Bible   1 Samuel 10:1 and the Revised Version (British and American)   2 Kings 9:1 ,  2 Kings 9:3 (the King James Version "box") for פּך , pakh , a word found nowhere else and from a root meaning "to pour." The shape and size of the pakh are quite uncertain. In 1 Esdras 2:13; and the King James Version  Revelation 5:8 , etc., "vial" translates φιάλη , phiale . The phialē was a flat, shallow bowl (Latin, patera ), shaped much like a saucer. Hence, the Revised Version's change to "bowl" in Revelation, a change that should have been made in 1 Esdras also.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering, in the A.V., of פִּךְ , Pak (from פָּכָה , To Distil ) , a bottle or Flask, e.g. of oil ( 1 Samuel 10:1; "box,"  2 Kings 9:1;  2 Kings 9:3); and Φιάλη (1 Esdr. 2, 13;  Revelation 5:8, etc.), a Bowl (q.v.).