Bag

Bags in Scripture refer to several distinct types of containers used for carrying money, goods, or provisions. The cone-shaped pocket in which Naaman bound two talents of silver is mentioned in 2 Kings 5:23; the Hebrew tsror denotes a small bundle or purse used to carry coins (Deuteronomy 25:13; Proverbs 16:11; Micah 6:11). Isaiah 3:22 refers to women's bags among the ornamental accessories the prophet announces will be taken away in judgment. The Greek balantion in Luke's Gospel denotes a purse or money bag.

Haggai 1:6 employs the image of a bag with holes — earning wages only to put them into a perforated bag — as a vivid picture of the economic futility the post-exilic community experienced while neglecting the rebuilding of the temple. Judas Iscariot carried the disciples' common money bag (John 12:6; 13:29), and his betrayal of Jesus for thirty pieces of silver is foreshadowed in John's note that he was a thief who pilfered from what was put into it.