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# מֶלְקָחַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4457

**tongs** — used 6 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

tongs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4457/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם: du. tongs, snuffers [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4457/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** \[מַלְקָחַיִם\] n.\[m.\]du. tongs, snuffers;— tongs used at altar of temple, for lifting coal, in Is.’s vision, Is 6:6. lamp-snuffers, in temple 1 K 7:49 = 2 Ch 4:21; in tabern. sf. (ref. to lamp-stand, מְנוֹרָה) מַלְקָחֶיהָ Ex 25:38; 37:23 Nu 4:9 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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: tongs (6).

## 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.

[2 Chronicles 4:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.21/#tree)

וְהַפֶּ֧רַח וְהַנֵּר֛וֹת וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִם זָהָ֑ב ה֖וּא מִכְל֥וֹת זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the blossom and the lamps and the tongs gold it \[was\].perfection(s) of.gold

*JPS 1917:* and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4457.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4457/): 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).