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BAGGAGE

bag'aj:
(1) keli, "the impedimenta of an army"): "David left his baggage in the hand of the keeper of the baggage" (1 Sam 17:22); "at Michmash he layeth up his baggage" (Isa 10:28). The American Standard Revised Version gives baggage for "stuff" at 1 Sam 10:22; 25:13; 30:24.
(2) aposkeue: "Beside the baggage" (Judith 7:2), "a great ado and much baggage" (1 Macc 9:35,39), "the women and the children and also the baggage" (the King James Version "and other baggage"; 2 Macc 12:21).
(3) aposkeuazomai, "to make ready for leaving," "to pack up baggage"): "We took up (made ready, Revised Version margin) our baggage" (Acts 21:15, the King James Version "carriages"), i.e. what they could carry--English: "luggage"; but others understand the term of the loading of the baggage animals.
M. O. Evans Bibliography Information
Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Definition for 'baggage'". "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia". bible-history.com - ISBE; 1915.

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