Quick Definition
πήρα, ας, ἡ n.f. a sack, wallet
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity; a wallet or leather pouch for food
KJV Usage: scrip
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας
6.145 · Artifacts · Containers
traveller’s bag a bag used by travellers (or beggars) to carry possessions It is possible that in MAT 10:10 (and parallel passages) the reference is specifically to a ‘beggar’s bag’ used to collect food or money.
MAT 10:10 · MRK 6:8 · LUK 9:3 · LUK 10:4 · LUK 22:35 · LUK 22:36
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πήρα, -as, 7, α wallet (a leathern sack, in which travellers and shepherds carried their provisions) [A. V. scrip (q- v- in B.D.)]: Mt. x. 10; Mk. vi. 8; Lk. ix.3; x. 4; xxii. 35 sq. (Hom., Arstph., Joseph., Plut., Hdian., Leian., al.; with τῶν βρωμάτων added, Judith xiii. 10.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πήρα pēra 6x
a leather bag or sack for provisions, wallet, Mt. 10:10; Mk. 6:8
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** πήρα, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX: Jth 10:5 13:10, 15*;]
a leathern pouch for victuals, etc., a wallet (Deiss. thinks an alms-bag, v. LAE, 108 ff.): Mt 10:10, Mk 6:8, Lk 9:3 10:4 22:35, 36.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πήρα. In Mt το"ῦ a/. πήρα is usually understood as “ἃ travellingbag’ containing clothes or provisions for the journey ; but Deissmann (LAZ, p. 108 ff.) prefers to see in it ‘*a collectingbag ’’ such as beggar-priests of pagan cults carried for receiving alms, and in support of this view cites an inscr. in which a slave of the Syrian goddess tells how he went begging for the ‘“lady’’, adding—a(m)opdpynce ἑκάστη ἀγωγὴ πήρας ὁ, ‘teach journey brought in seventy bags” (BCH xxi. (1897) p. 60-—Imperial period). Consequently, as Deissmann’s translator points out (LAE Zc. n.§), “*wallet ’’ is the right word in English, as seen e.g. in Shakespeare 7Z7oz/us and Cressida III. iii. 145, ‘‘ Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.” For the dim. πηρίδιον see Epict. iii. 22. 10, and Menandrea p. 141! πηρίδιον γνωρισμάτων, ‘Sa walletful of birth tokens.” The etymology is uncertain.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πήρα (pēra) — bag. πήρα, Ionic dialect πήρη (πάρη [ᾰ] [Refs 4th c.AD+], ἡ, leathern pouch for victuals, etc., wallet, [Refs 8th c.BC+]