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# snuffers

«snuffers» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Small tools for trimming the wick of a lamp or candle so…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Small tools for trimming the wick of a lamp or candle so it burns well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/snuffers/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: They were gold tools of the Temple and Tabernacle lampstand. Babylon carried them off when it destroyed the Temple. Interpretation: Tradition sees their loss as part of the grief of the Temple's destruction. It also marks the care that went into the daily lighting of the lamps.

### examples

- and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and the fire-pans, of pure gold. (Writings 2CH.4.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/snuffers/#x1)
- And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. (Prophets 2KI.25.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/snuffers/#x2)
- The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. (Prophets JER.52.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/snuffers/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and the fire-pans, of pure gold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.79/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snuffers» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/snuffers/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.