Matthew 15:37

Seven baskets (Gk. spurides) full] In the other miracle there were 'twelve baskets (Gk. kophinoi) full.' The difference in the baskets is perhaps to be accounted for by the different nationality of the multitudes. The 'kophinos' was well known as the provision-basket of the Jews. Juvenal, the Roman poet (100-130 a.d.), speaks of the Jews going about in heathen countries carrying a 'kophinos' to hold their food, and a bundle of hay for their bed, to avoid the pollution of Gentile food and bedding. The capacity of the 'kophinos' was about two gallons. The 'spuris' was probably larger. In a 'spuris' St. Paul was let down from the wall of Damascus (Acts 9:25), though St. Paul himself uses a different word (2 Corinthians 11:33).