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STRONGS NUMBER H4457

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Word Summary
melqach or malqach: tongs, snuffers
Original Word: מֶלְקָח
Transliteration: melqach or malqach
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-kawkh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: tongs, snuffers
Meaning: tongs, snuffers
Strong's Concordance
snuffers, tongs

Or malqach {mal-kawkh'}; from laqach; (only in dual) tweezers -- snuffers, tongs.

see HEBREW laqach

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4457. melqach

or malqach מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם‎, [מַלְקָחַיִם‎] noun [masculine] dual tongs, snuffers; —

1 tongs used at altar of temple, for lifting coal, in Isaiah's vision, Isaiah 6:6.

2 lamp snuffers, in temple 1 Kings 7:49 2 Chronicles 4:21; in tabernacle suffix ( reference to lamp-stand, מְנוֺרָה‎) מַלְקָחֶיהָ‎ Exodus 25:38; 37:23; Numbers 4:9 (all P).





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