Vessels
VESSELS.See House, 9; Meals, 5. For the vessels of the tabernacle (AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ) RV [Note: Revised Version.] has sometimes furniture, sometimes instruments, according to the context (cf. Num 1:50 with 3:26). For the Temple cf. 1Ch 9:29 in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] . In Gen 43:11 vessels is equivalent to saddlebags. In 1Th 4:4 vessel probably stands for body rather than wife, an alternative favoured by many (see Milligan, Thess., ad loc.).
A. R. S. Kennedy.