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# מַחְתָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4289

**fire-holder** — used 22 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

fire-holder [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4289/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַחְתָּה: n.f. fire-holder, censer, snuff-dish [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4289/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fire-holder, censer, snuff-dish;—abs. מ׳ Lv 16:12; Nu 17:11; sf. מַחְתָּתוֹ Lv 10:1 + 4 times; pl. abs. מַחְתּוֹת Nu 16:6 + 4 times; מַחְתֹּת Nu 16:17 + 3 times; cstr. מַחְתּוֹת Nu 17:3, 4; sf. מַחְתֹּתָיו Ex 27:3; מַחְתֹּתֶיהָ Ex 25:38 + 2 times;— snuff-holder, snuff-dish (NowArchäol. ii, 63. 65) of gold Ex 25:38; 37:23 Nu 4:9 (all P). bronze utensils, fire-pans, belonging to altar of burnt-offerings Ex 27:3; 38:3, cf. Nu 4:14 (all P); fire-pans of gold 1 K 7:50 = 2 Ch 4:22, 2 K 25:15 = Je 52:19. censer, Lv 10:1; 16:12 Nu 16:6, 17(×4), 18; 17:2, 3, 4 (of bronze), v 11 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: fire-pans (10); censer (7); censers (3).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.38/#tree)

וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and tongs its and fire-pans its \[will.be\].gold pure

*JPS 1917:* And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

[Numbers 16:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.6/#tree)

זֹ֖את עֲשׂ֑וּ קְחוּ־לָכֶ֣ם מַחְתּ֔וֹת קֹ֖רַח וְכָל־עֲדָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* this do take (for yourselves censers O.Korah and all company his

*JPS 1917:* This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4289/): 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).