H4207 - מַזְלֵג (mazlêg)

H4207 מַזְלֵג (mazlêg) maz-layg'

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

a fork

Derivation: or (feminine) מִזְלָגָה; from an unused root meaning to draw up;

KJV Usage: fleshhook.

TWOT Reference: 552a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) three-pronged fork

1a) a sacrificial implement

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִזְלָגָה / מַזְלֵג mazlêg / mizlâgâh BDB Definition: 1) three-pronged fork 1a) a sacrificial implement Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root meaning to draw up Same Word by TWOT Number: 552a Total KJV Occurrences: 7

Bible Occurrences (7)

27:3 38:3

4:14

2:13 2:14

28:17

4:16

Exodus 27:3

Make... all its utensils of bronze — its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

Exodus 38:3

He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze — its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans -.

Numbers 4:14

and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls— all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather... and insert the poles.

1 Samuel 2:13

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

1 Samuel 2:14

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.

1 Chronicles 28:17

[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...;

2 Chronicles 4:16

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.