ne.vel denotes a container, often a wine-carrying skin or bag, and in some contexts a vessel or jar.

The occurrences most often place the noun in construct forms among provisions and wine, indicating a portable container; other verses use it for vessels or jars, including pottery imagery and a figurative comparison involving the heavens.

1. Portable bag or skin for contents · dominant

   Construct singular and plural forms occur in lists of supplies: in 1 Samuel 10:3 and 1 Samuel 1:24 the APB renders the surrounding provision as a "skin of wine," while 1 Samuel 25:18 includes "two skins of wine" among food loaded on donkeys. In 2 Samuel 16:1, Jeremiah 13:12, and Job 38:37, the clause likewise concerns wine or water held in containers; Job 38:37 applies the plural construct form to the "waterskins of the heavens."

   1 Samuel 10:31 Samuel 1:241 Samuel 25:182 Samuel 16:1Jeremiah 13:12Job 38:37
2. Vessel or jar, including pottery imagery · common

   In Isaiah 22:24 the plural absolute stands within a list of lesser containers, which the APB renders from "bowls" to "jars." Isaiah 30:14 describes a shattered potter's vessel, while Jeremiah 48:12 and Lamentations 4:2 use plural construct forms in clauses about smashed jars and earthenware bags made by a potter.

   Isaiah 22:24Isaiah 30:14Jeremiah 48:12Lamentations 4:2

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with varying container language: "skin of wine" or "skins of wine" in provision scenes, "bag" in Jeremiah 13:12, and "vessels," "jars," or "earthenware bags" in other contexts. These renderings show the clauses' presentation rather than a fixed English equivalent.