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# מִזְרָק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4219

**bowl** — used 32 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

bowl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4219/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִזְרָק: n.m. bowl, bason [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4219/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Nu 7:84 bowl, bason (proposes vessel for throwing or tossing a liquid); מ׳ Nu 7:13 + 13 times, pl. מִזְרָקִים Zc 14:20, cstr. מִזְרְקֵי Nu 7:84 + 2 times, מִזְרָקוֹת Ne 7:70 + 9 times, מִזְרָקֹת Ex 38:3 + 2 times, sf. מִזְרְקֹתָיו Ex 27:3;— bowl for wine Am 6:6. elsewhere for use in ritual of sacrifice: for use at altar Ex 27:3; 38:3 Nu 4:14 (all P), 1 K 7:40; 45 Je 52:18 Zc 9:15; 14:20. given by the princes full of flour mingled with oil for a מנחה Nu 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73, 79, 84, 85 (P). golden basons for use in the temple 1 K 7:50 2 K 12:14; 25:15 1 Ch 28:17 2 Ch 4:8, 11, 22 Je 52:19. golden basons for the second temple Ne 7:70.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 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: bowls (17); a bowl (12); bowl (2).

## In the verses

[Amos 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.6.6/#tree)

הַשֹּׁתִ֤ים בְּמִזְרְקֵי֙ יַ֔יִן וְרֵאשִׁ֥ית שְׁמָנִ֖ים יִמְשָׁ֑חוּ וְלֹ֥א נֶחְל֖וּ עַל־שֵׁ֥בֶר יוֹסֵֽף

*Word for word:* \[those who\].drink in bowls of.wine and.\[the\] best of.oils they.smear and not they.were.sickened on the.ruin of.Joseph

*JPS 1917:* That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments; but they are not grieved for the hurt of Joseph.

[2 Kings 25:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.15/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַמַּחְתּוֹת֙ וְאֶת־הַמִּזְרָק֗וֹת אֲשֶׁ֤ר זָהָב֙ זָהָ֔ב וַאֲשֶׁר־כֶּ֖סֶף כָּ֑סֶף לָקַ֖ח רַב־טַבָּחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the fire-pans and (et) the bowls which \[were\].gold gold and which \[were\].silver silver he.took.away \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards

*JPS 1917:* And the fire-pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4219/): 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).