BOTTLE, five Heb. words and one Gr. word are so tr. in the various VSS. The most frequent is Heb. נֵ֫בֶל֒, H5574, meaning “a large stone crock,” “an earthenware jar” for wine (1 Sam 1:24ff. et al.). Almost as frequent is Heb. נֹאד, H5532, Akkad. nādu, “a water skin,” the hide of an animal sewn and sealed to be used as a wine or water container (Josh 9:4, et al.). RSV reads “bottle” in Psalms 33:7 and 56:8, but this is due to confusing this Heb. root with נֵ֖ד, “a hill,” “heap” as in Exodus 15:8, et al. Less common in the OT is Heb. חֵ֫מֶת, H2827. The term prob. refers to a smaller wine skin or “flask.” In Genesis 21:14ff. and Habakkuk 2:15, however, there is some confusion in the VSS as to proper tr. A number of variants of the strange term Heb. בַּקְבֻּק, H1318, has been explained as an onomatopoeic term for drinking from a flask and by extension the flask itself. However, this is unlikely; the term occurs in the books from the Neo-Babylonian and Pers. periods, viz. Jeremiah, Ezra, and Nehemiah and as such is prob. an Indo-European or even Ural-Altaic loan word. It seems to mean a “small drinking flask.” In Job 32:19 the term אﯴב֒, H199, appears in its only occurrence in the Bible. Although the context makes its general meaning of “bottle,” prob. “wine skin” clear enough, no etymology is known for it. In the NT the Gr. term, ἀσκός, G829, appears in parallel passages in Matthew 9:17ff.; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37ff. The term is as old as Homer and is found in the LXX and Jos. Antiq. It clearly means a “wine skin.”