With that we may leave the vocabulary to the Hebrew scholars and consider that unfortunately as archaeologists we do not find any trace of those wine-bags. It comes from a root that means “collapsing”, since when the skins were empty they were collapsed and folded away.
And right, if we look this word up in the New Strong’s Dictionary for Hebrew and Greek Words we do get the meaning “a skin-bag for liquids”. The Hebrew word used for that is נבל( nebel). Something like that wouldn’t survive in the archaeological record. We only have a reference here to a “skin of wine”.
#Biblical wineskin skin
Samuel 1:24 we read that Hannah kept her promise to the LORD and brought her son Samuel to the house of the tabernacle in Shiloh.Īfter he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. Following the NIV (New International Version) translation, in 1. The first example doesn’t look very promising at all, for from a reading of many Bibles it doesn’t even refer to a ceramic vessel, but rather a wine-skin. It is just the back-drop and a familiarity with the ordinary things of life is assumed. A description of life in Ancient Israel is not the purpose of the Bible. They are not really interested in the ceramic vessels. Third, the references in the Bible mention the ceramic vessels in passing. It is sometimes difficult to ascertain from the few references what the ceramic vessel might have been used for and what it might have looked like. Second, there are far fewer references to pots and jars in the Bible than we might assume. Rather, they probably covered a surprisingly wide range of forms with sometimes overlapping descriptions. First, I think that the Biblical terms were not always consistently applied to refer to one particular form. After all, in the Bible we read of jars and jugs, of potters and potsherds.īut it is not easy to relate the pots we find in excavations to those mentioned in the Bible. Especially for those archaeological layers associated with biblical times, the question arises how the people would have called these pots and jars at the time and how they might have used them. Whoever lived there must have used ceramic vessels for a whole lot of purposes, and many of those ceramic vessels somehow must have been broken and left behind. When excavating archaeological sites in Israel, potsherds normally turn up in large quantities.
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