Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
A small bag or wallet usually fastened to the girdle (1 Sam. 17:40); "a shepherd's bag."
In the New Testament it is the rendering of Gr.pera, which was a bag carried by travellers and shepherds, generally made of skin (Mt. 10:10; Mk. 6:8; Lk. 9:3, 10:4). The name "scrip" is meant to denote that the bag was intended to hold scraps, fragments, as if scraped off from larger articles, trifles.