Strong’s H4457 · Hebrew
מֶלְקָח
melqâch · mel-kawkh'
Origin or מַלְקָח; from לָקַח (H3947);
Meaning (only in dual) tweezers
In the King James Version snuffers, tongs.
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- Exodus 25:38And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.
- Exodus 37:23And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
- Numbers 4:9And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
- 1 Kings 7:49And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
- 2 Chronicles 4:21And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;
- Isaiah 6:6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.