BADGERS' SKINS (baj'Ers' skins), (Heb. takh'ash, badger; ore, skin; Ex. xxv:5; Ezek. xvi:10).
The true badger is rare, if known, in Arabia. It is believed that the skins meant were those of such marine animals as the dolphin, dugong, and seal. Dr. Robinson writes : "The superior" (of the convent of Mount Sinai) "procured for me a pair of the sandals usually worn by the Bedouin of the peninsula, made of the thick skin of a fish which is caught in the Red Sea. * * * The skin is clumsy and coarse, and might answer very well for the external covering of the tabernacle which was constructed at Sinai, but would seem hardly a fitting material for the ornamental san dals belonging to the costly attire of high-born dames in Palestine described by the prophet Ezekiel." Tristram adds: "As the tachash (badger) probably included also the seal, the sandals of the Jewish women may have been of that material, and so also may have been the cov ering of the tabernacle." BAG (bag), the translation of several Hebrew and Greek terms.
1. Khaw-reet' pocket), men tioned in 2 Kings v :23 as the "bags" in which Naaman placed the talents for Gehazi. Gesenius thinks that they were called pockets from their long. conelike shape. In Is. III :22 the word is rendered "crisping pins," but denotes the reticules carried by Hebrew ladies.
2. Tscr-ore' (Heb. properly a "bundle" (Gen. xlii :35; I Sam. xxv :29). appears to have been used in carrying money on a long journey ( Prov. vii :20; Hag. i :6).
3. Keece Web. a bag for carrying weights (Dent. xxv :13; Prov. xvi ; Mic. vi: II), and also used as a purse (Prov. i34; Is. xlvi :6). • 4. Kel-ee' (Heb. .7F), rendered "bag" in I Sam. xvii :40, 49, is a word of general meaning. It is the "sack" in which Jacob's sons carried grain (Gen. xlii :25), hut in I Sam. ix :7 ; xxi :5, it denotes a bag or wallet for carrying food (A. K. "vessel"). The "shepherd's bag" (1 Sam. xvii: 40) carried by David was probably (see Zech. xi: 15, 16) used to hold the lambs which were unable to walk, and also materials for healing such as were sick and binding up those that were hurt (Comp. Ezek. xxxiv :4, 16).
5. In the New Testament two Greek words are employed ; (a) yXwrcrfKop.ov gloce-sok'om-on, the " bag' which Judas carried, probably a small box or chest (John xii :6; xiii :29) ; (b) the fiaaaynov (bal-an'tee-on) or wallet (Luke x:4; xxii :35, 36, purse; xii:33, bag). All of these were used as receptacles for money. (Mc. and Sir. Cyc.)