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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Vial:

vi'-al: In modern English means "a tiny flask." The word appears in English Versions of the Bible 1Sa 10:1 and the Revised Version (British and American) 2Ki 9:1,3 (the King James Version "box") for pakh, a word found nowhere else and from a root meaning "to pour." The shape and size of the pakh are quite uncertain. In 1 Esdras 2:13; and the King James Version Re 5:8, etc., "vial" translates phiale. The phiale was a flat, shallow bowl (Latin, patera), shaped much like a saucer. Hence, the Revised Version's change to "bowl" in Revelation, a change that should have been made in 1 Esdras also.

King James Dictionary

Vial: Bowl; Goblet.

And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the VIALS of the wrath of God upon the earth. And the first went, and poured out his VIAL upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. (Revelation 16:1-2)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
 

Vial:

For VIAL see BOWL

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