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title: מִזְלָג — fork · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִזְלָג (4207), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 7 times: fork. BDB 1906: n.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִזְלָג

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«מִזְלָג» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fork** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 7 times · **Key:** 4207 · **BDB:** מַזְלֵג

### Glosses

forks (5); fork (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fork [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4207/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4207/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. appar. a sacrificial implement, three-pronged fork הַמּ׳ שְׁלשׁ הַשִּׁנַּיִם 1 S 2:13, cf. v 14 (v. DrSm. pp. 23, 291).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִזְלָג» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4207/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 27:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.27.3/)

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וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ סִּֽירֹתָיו֙ לְדַשְּׁנ֔וֹ וְיָעָיו֙ וּמִזְרְקֹתָ֔יו וּמִזְלְגֹתָ֖יו וּמַחְתֹּתָ֑יו לְכָל־כֵּלָ֖יו תַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make pots its to take away.its.fatty.ashes and shovels its and bowls its and forks its and fire-pans its to all articles its you.will.make bronze

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make its pots to take away its ashes, and its shovels, and its basins, and its flesh-hooks, and its fire-pans; all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

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[1 Samuel 2:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.13/)

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וּמִשְׁפַּ֥ט הַכֹּהֲנִ֖ים אֶת־הָעָ֑ם כָּל־אִ֞ישׁ זֹבֵ֣חַ זֶ֗בַח וּבָ֨א נַ֤עַר הַכֹּהֵן֙ כְּבַשֵּׁ֣ל הַבָּשָׂ֔ר וְהַמַּזְלֵ֛ג שְׁלֹ֥שׁ־הַשִּׁנַּ֖יִם בְּיָדֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the.custom of the.priests with the people every person \[who.was\].sacrificing a.sacrifice and he.came the.servant of the.priest just as.boiled the meat and the fork the.three the prongs \[was\].in hand his

*JPS 1917:* And the custom of the priests with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a flesh-hook of three teeth in his band;

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