πήρα, πήρας, ἡ, a wallet (a leather sack, in which travellers and shepherds carried their provisions) (A. V. scrip (which see in B. D.)): Mat_10:10; Mar_6:8; Luk_9:3; Luk_10:4; Luk_22:35 f. (Homer, Aristophanes, Josephus, Plutarch, Herodian, Lucian, others; with τῶν βρωμάτων added, Jdt_13:10.)

πήρα pēra 6x a leather bag or sack for provisions, wallet, Mat_10:10 ; Mar_6:8

** πἡρα , -ας , ἡ , [in LXX : Jdt_10:5 ; Jdt_13:10 ; Jdt_13:15 * ;] a leathern pouch for victuals, etc., a wallet ( Deiss . thinks an alms-bag, v. LAE , 108 ff .): Mat_10:10 , Mar_6:8 , Luk_9:3 ; Luk_10:4 ; Luk_22:35-36 .†

πήρα [page 512] In Mat_10:10 al. πήρα is usually understood as a travellingbag containing clothes or provisions for the journey; but Deissmann ( LAE , 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 ἀ (π )οφόρησε ἑκάστη ἀγωγὴ πήρας ο̄ , each journey brought in seventy bags ( BCH xxi. (1897) p. 60 Imperial period). Consequently, as Deissmann s translator points out ( LAE l.c. n. .3 ), wallet is the right word in English, as seen e.g. in Shakespeare Troilus 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. 14 .114 πηρίδιον γνωρισμάτων , a wallet-ful of birth tokens. The etymology is uncertain.

πήρα πήρα, ionic πήρη, ἡ, "a leathern pouch, a wallet, scrip", Lat. pera, Od. , Ar.

πἡρα, -ας, ἡ [in LXX: Jdth.10:5 13:10, 15 * ;] a leathern pouch for victuals, etc., a wallet (Deiss. thinks an alms-bag, see LAE, 108 ff.): Mat.10:10, Mrk.6:8, Luk.9:3 10:4 22:35-36.† (AS)