an apparently inexhaustible supply: 2 Kings 4:1-7
widow's cruse
widow's cruseWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Link to this page
Cite this page
MLA Style
"widow\'s cruse." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 21 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/widow-s-cruse>.
APA Style
widow\'s cruse. (n.d.). Retrieved January 21st, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/widow-s-cruse
Noun
(plural widow's cruses)
- An inexhaustible supply, oftentimes of something that appears meager.
Origin
From the widow's cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (I Kings 17:8-16).
English Wiktionary. Available under CC-BY-SA license.
Link to this page
Cite this page
MLA Style
"widow\'s cruse." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 21 January 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/widow-s-cruse>.
APA Style
widow\'s cruse. (n.d.). Retrieved January 21st, 2019, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/widow-s-cruse
