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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Box:

for holding oil or perfumery (Mar 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (pak) used for it is more appropriately rendered "vial" in 1Sa 10:1, and should also be so rendered in 2Ki 9:1, where alone else it occurs.

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Box:

The passages in which this word occurs are 2Ki 9:1,3 (Hebrew pakh, "cruet," "flask," the Revised Version (British and American) vial) and the synoptic passages Mt 26:7 the King James Version; Mr 14:3 the King James Version; Lu 7:37 the King James Version (Greek alabastron). "Perfume-boxes" are mentioned in Isa 3:20; in the New Testament passages the Revised Version (British and American) renders "alabaster cruse." "Alabaster" was a white stone much used in ornamentation; and out of it small vessels were made for holding precious ointment. "She brake the cruse" (Mr 14:3), i.e. the seal, not the vessel.

In Isa 41:19 and Isa 60:13, "box" is found in connection with "tree," as "BOX-TREE" (which see).

Nave's Topical Bible

Box: For Oil

2Ki 9:1-3

Box: Made of Alabaster

Mat 26:7; Mar 14:3; Luk 7:37

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Box:

"an alabaster vessel," is translated in the AV of Mat 26:7; Mar 14:3; Luk 7:37, "box," RV, "cruse." The breaking refers to the seal, not to the box or cruse.
See CRUSE.