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widow\'s cruse

noun

an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.

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widow's cruse

—n
	an endless or unfailing source of supply

[allusion to I Kings 17:16]

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