Bason (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. Bason is the rendering in EV of various Heb. words, and of the Gr. vittttjp (Ja 13'). Of the former the most frequently used is pyp (LXX 0ia\i), (rvoi-dtlov, of. Jos. I.e. inf.), which denotes a bowl or basin used in the sacrilicial ritual of tabernacle and temple. The officiating priest or priests caught the warm blood, as it streamed from the victim, in the basin, from which it was dashed against the altar (Ex 29"" etc.), or other- wise manipulated as the ritual required (see Sacrifice). The basins used for this purpose were of bronze (Ex 27', 1 K 7"). About their size and shape we have no further information. They probably resembled somewhat the basin of bronze presented by ' a servant of Hiram ' to the Phcen. deity Baal-Lebanon, of which a reconstruction from the remaining fragments is given in the CIS I. i. 23. The same term (p^t?) is applied to the silver bowls or basins presented by the princes of the congregation with a nieal-ofl'ering (Nu 7"-)- The weight of each basin, 70 shekels, — prob. about 32 oz. troy, — shows that the Pip was not of very large dimensions. Among the furniture of the temple of Solomon, basins of gold are repeatedly mentioned (1 K 7, 2 K 12", Jer 52'» etc.). The number of these made by Hiram is given as 100 in 2 Ch 4' (with wh. cf. the statements Ezr !'■", and contrast the exaggerations of Jos. Ant. vill. iii. 7, 8). Fifty such golden basins were presented by ' the Tirshatha' to the second temple (Neh 7'"). 2. Bason is also in a few places the rendering of IP, which, if the reading of 2 S 17^ be correct (cf. Klosterm. in loc.), was the name for a basin as a common article of household furniture, such as is denoted by unrr-^p (Jn 13') With this agrees its use by JE in the account of the institution of the Passover (Ex 12-''' by the LXX mistranslated irapd ■Hin Svpap). In some passages the word is translated ' cup ' bj' RV. 3. A tliird term (I'm?) occurs only in the late book of Ch-Ezr-Neh (1 Ch 28>', Ezr I" 8"), and The Amer. Revisers prefer throughout ±e more modem spelliiiif 'baslD. BASSAI BATH, BATHING 267 may be considered as a word of later origin than the others. It occurs alongside of p^|C, and must therefore have differed from it ; but in what -aoppct we do not know. It is rendered in RV unitormly by 'bowl' (which see). n^JS 'basins,' occurs only Ex 24». A. R. S. Kennedy. BASSAI (B Bo<r<ra(, A Baatri, AV Bassa), 1 Es 6" -Bez-u, Ear 2", Neh 7». BASTARD is one bom out of wedlock ; and that is the meaning in He 12' ' then are ye bastards {v6$oi) and not sons,' its only occurrence in NT ; but in OT it is probable that iiij? mavizir, of which b. is the tr. where it occurs (Dt 23^, Zee 9, only), means a child of incest, not simply an illegitimate child. See Driver on Dt 23'. Wis 4 (heading) has ' Bastard slips shall not thrive ' as a paraphrase of 4' ' But the multiplying brood of the ungodly shall not thrive,' where Uie meaning is probably general ' = 'base,' as in Spenser, F.Q. i. 24 — ' For X\ he taught the tender ymp was but To b&uiBb oowardlxe and bastarti feare.' J. Hastings. BASTHAI (BaaBci, AV Bastal), 1 Es 5" = BesaI, Ext 2" Neh 7".