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# מְזַמֶּרֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4212

**snuffers** — used 5 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

snuffers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4212/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְזַמֶּרֶת: n.f. snuffers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4212/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. snuffers, as utensil of Sol.’s temple, only pl. abs. מְזַמְּרוֹת 2 K 12:14, הַמְזַמְּרוֹת 1 K 7:50 = 2 Ch 4:22, 2 K 25:14 = Je 52:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Kings 12:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.12.14/#tree)

אַךְ֩ לֹ֨א יֵעָשֶׂ֜ה בֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֗ה סִפּ֥וֹת כֶּ֙סֶף֙ מְזַמְּר֤וֹת מִזְרָקוֹת֙ חֲצֹ֣צְר֔וֹת כָּל־כְּלִ֥י זָהָ֖ב וּכְלִי־כָ֑סֶף מִן־הַכֶּ֖סֶף הַמּוּבָ֥א בֵית־יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* only not it.was.made the.house of.Yahweh basins of.silver snuffers bowls trumpets any article of.gold and article of.silver from the money \[which was\].brought the.house of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* But there were not made for the house of the LORD cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of the LORD;

[2 Kings 25:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.14/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַסִּירֹ֨ת וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֜ים וְאֶת־הַֽמְזַמְּר֣וֹת וְאֶת־הַכַּפּ֗וֹת וְאֵ֨ת כָּל־כְּלֵ֧י הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְשָֽׁרְתוּ־בָ֖ם לָקָֽחוּ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the pots and (et) the shovels and (et) the snuffers and (et) the pans and (et) all the.articles of.(the) bronze which people.served with them they.took.away

*JPS 1917:* And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4212/): 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).