מַזְלֵג
maz.leg
“fork”
Definition
a fork
or (feminine) מִזְלָגָה; from an unused root meaning to draw up;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
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Occurrences
מַזְלֵג appears 7 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers;the weight of each gold dish;the weight of each silver bowl;
or for the custom of the priests with the people.When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.
and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles.All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
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