For eating from (2 Kings 21:13). Judas dipped his hand with a "sop" or piece of bread in the same dish with our Lord, thereby indicating friendly intimacy (Matthew 26:23). The "lordly dish" in Judges 5:25 was probably the shallow drinking cup, usually of brass. In Judges 6:38 the same Hebrew word is rendered "bowl."

The dishes of the tabernacle were made of pure gold (Exodus 25:29; 37:16).

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

2. (n.) The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. A dish fit for the gods.

3. (n.) The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

4. (n.) A hollow place, as in a field.

5. (n.) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

6. (n.) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

7. (v. t.) To put in a dish, ready for the table.

8. (v. t.) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

9. (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.