Basket

Flat, open baskets to carry bread

In the chief baker's dream

For offering unleavened bread

Exodus 29:23 parallel Leviticus 8:26 See also Exodus 29:2–3 parallel Leviticus 8:1–2; Numbers 6:15–17

along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.

Baskets used to hold food

To store household provisions

Deuteronomy 28:5 Signifying the continued provision of food for the household. See also Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.

To collect food

Matthew 14:20 parallels Mark 6:43, Luke 9:17, John 6:13 See also Matthew 13:48, Matthew 15:37 parallel Mark 8:8; Matthew 16:9–10 parallel Mark 8:19–20

They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.

Baskets used to carry fruit

Jeremiah 24:1–2 See also Deuteronomy 23:24; Psalm 81:6; Amos 8:1–2

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD. One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

Other uses of baskets

Exodus 2:3–5 Moses is put into a papyrus basket; Deuteronomy 26:2–4 firstfruits presented in a basket; 2 Kings 10:7 the heads of Ahab's sons sent to Jehu in baskets; Zechariah 5:6–11 The wickedness of Jerusalem is removed, figuratively, to Babylon in a basket.; Acts 9:25; 2 Corinthians 11:33