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FLAGON occurs five times in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , but in only one of these instances is the tr. [Note: translate or translation.] retained by RV [Note: Revised Version.] , namely, Isa_22:24, ‘vessels of flagons.’ Here it is perhaps an earthenware bottle. On the other hand, RV [Note: Revised Version.] introduces ‘flagons’ in two instances where it is not found in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , namely, Exo_25:39; Exo_37:16. This tr. [Note: translate or translation.] is probably correct, although RV [Note: Revised Version.] gives ‘cups’ for the same Heb. word in Num_4:7. In all these three passages AV [Note: Authorized Version.] has ‘covers.’ In the remaining four instances where AV [Note: Authorized Version.] gives ‘flagons’ (2Sa_6:19, 1Ch_16:3, Hos_3:1, Son_2:5), the meaning of the Heb. word is a ‘pressed cake … composed of meal, oil, and dibs’ (W. R. Smith, OTJC [Note: TJC The Old Test. in the Jewish Church.] 1 434, n. [Note: . note.] 7). Hence in 2Sa_6:19, 1Ch_16:3, RV [Note: Revised Version.] gives ‘cake of raisins’ for AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ‘flagon [of wine],’ in Hos_3:1 ‘cakes of raisins’ for ‘flagons of wine,’ and in Son_2:5 ‘raisins’ (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘cakes of raisins’) for ‘flagons.’