Bible Dictionary
Carriage
Carriage in older Bible English often means baggage, goods, equipment, or a load carried during travel, rather than a wheeled vehicle.
Definition
In older Bible English, carriage commonly means baggage, goods, equipment, valuables, or a load carried during travel, rather than a wheeled vehicle. In some contexts it can refer to a wagon or cart.
Biblical Usage
The word describes valuables or booty, a beast’s load, military equipment and baggage, and the belongings packed by Paul’s company when they traveled. The Revised Version commonly uses “goods,” “baggage,” or “the things that you carried.”
Historical Background
The Authorized Version uses “carriage” for several different Hebrew and Greek words. In one margin it refers to the place of the baggage or wagons, equivalent to the encampment or trench.
Scripture References
Related Figures
Historical Bible Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
In the Authorized Version this word is found as the rendering of many different words. In Judg. 18:21 it means valuables, wealth, or booty. In Isa. 46:1 (R.V., “the things that ye carried about”) the word means a load for a beast of burden. In 1 Sam. 17:22 and Isa. 10:28 it is the rendering of a word (“stuff” in 1 Sam. 10:22) meaning implements, equipments, baggage. The phrase in Acts 21:15, “We took up our carriages,” means properly, “We packed up our baggage,” as in the Revised Version.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
This word signifies what we now call “baggage.” In the margin of (1 Samuel 17:20) and 1Sam 26:5-7 And there only, “carriage” is employed int he sense of a wagon or cart.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE)
<p>kar'-ij (keli, kebhuddah, nesu'ah; episkeuasamenoi; the Revised Version (British and American) "We took up our baggage"; the American Revised Version, margin "made ready"): One or the other of the above words occurs in six different places and all have been translated in the King James Version by "carriage" in its obsolete meaning (Jud 18:21; 1Sa 17:22 (twice); Isa 10:28; 46:1; Ac 21:15). In the Revised Version (British and American) and the American Standard Revised Version these are translated by the more modern expressions "goods," "baggage," or "the things that you carried." In 1Sa 17:20 the King James Version margin "place of the carriage" occurs as the equivalent of "trench." The Hebrew ma'galah may mean "the place of wagons" as translated in the Revised Version (British and American), as it is not at all improbable that the encampment was surrounded by the baggage train.</p><p>James A. Patch</p>