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# מִזְלָג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4207

**fork** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

fork [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4207/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַזְלֵג: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4207/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. appar. a sacrificial implement, three-pronged fork הַמּ׳ שְׁלשׁ הַשִּׁנַּיִם 1 S 2:13, cf. v 14 (v. DrSm. pp. 23, 291).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: forks (5); fork (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 27:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.3/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ סִּֽירֹתָיו֙ לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹ וְיָעָיו֙ וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יו וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יו וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יו לְכָל־כֵּלָ֖יו תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make pots its to take away.its.fatty.ashes and shovels its and bowls its and forks its and fire-pans its to all articles its you.will.make bronze

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

[1 Samuel 2:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.13/#tree)

וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים אֶת־הָעָ֑ם כָּל־אִ֞ישׁ זֹבֵ֣חַ זֶ֗בַח וּבָ֨א נַ֤עַר הַכֹּהֵן֙ כְּבַשֵּׁ֣ל הַבָּשָׂ֔ר וְהַמַּזְלֵ֛ג שְׁלֹ֥שׁ־הַשִּׁנַּ֖יִם בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the.custom of the.priests with the people every person \[who.was\].sacrificing a.sacrifice and he.came the.servant of the.priest just as.boiled the meat and the fork the.three the prongs \[was\].in hand his

*JPS 1917:* And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his band;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4207.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4207/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).