Barrel
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A vessel used for keeping flour (1 Kgs 17:12, 14, 16). The same word (cad) so rendered is also translated “pitcher,” a vessel for carrying water (Gen 24:14; Judg 7:16).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
bar'-el: The word "barrel" in the King James Version (see 1 Kgs 17:12; 1 Kgs 17:14; 1 Kgs 17:16; 1 Kgs 18:33: "The barrel of meal," "fill four barrels with water," etc.) stands for the large earthenware jar (so the American Standard Revised Version) used in the East for carrying water from the spring or well, and for storing grain, etc., according to a custom that still persists. It is elsewhere (EV) more fitly rendered "pitcher."
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