is used (a) of "a vessel or implement" of various kinds, Mar 11:16, Luk 8:16, Joh 19:29, Act 10:11, Act 10:16, Act 11:5, Act 27:17 (a sail); Rom 9:21, 2Ti 2:20, Heb 9:21, Rev 2:27, Rev 18:12; (b) of "goods or household stuff," Mat 12:29 and Mar 3:27, "goods;" Luk 17:31, RV, "goods" (AV, "stuff"); (c) of "persons," (1) for the service of God, Act 9:15, "a (chosen) vessel;" 2Ti 2:21, "a vessel (unto honor);" (2) the "subjects" of Divine wrath, Rom 9:22; (3) the "subjects" of Divine mercy, Rom 9:23; (4) the human frame, 2Co 4:7; perhaps 1Th 4:4; (5) a husband and wife, 1Pe 3:7; of the wife, probably, 1Th 4:4; while the exhortation to each one "to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor" is regarded by some as referring to the believer's body [cp. Rom 6:13, 1Co 9:27; see No. (4)], the view that the "vessel" signifies the wife, and that the reference is to the sanctified maintenance of the married state, is supported by the facts that in 1Pe 3:7 the same word time, "honor," is used with regard to the wife; again in Heb 13:4, timios, "honorable" (RV, "in honor") is used in regard to marriage; further, the preceding command in 1 Thess. 4 is against fornication, and the succeeding one (1Th 4:6) is against adultery. In Rth 4:10, Sept., ktaomai, "to possess," is used of a wife.
<2,,30, angos>
denotes "a jar" or "pail," Mat 13:48, in the best texts (some have No. 3). It is used, in an inscription, of a cinerary urn.
<3,,30, angeion>
denotes "a small vessel" (a diminutive of No. 2), e.g., for carrying oil, Mat 25:4.
Note: For phaulos, Jam 3:16, RV, see EVIL, A, No. 3.
