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title: מַחְתָּה — fire-holder · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַחְתָּה (4289), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 22 times: fire-holder. BDB 1906: n.f. fire-holder, censer, snuff-dish. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַחְתָּה

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«מַחְתָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **fire-holder** — 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:** 22 times · **Key:** 4289 · **BDB:** מַחְתָּה

### Glosses

fire-pans (10); censer (7); censers (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

fire-holder [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4289/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. fire-holder, censer, snuff-dish [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4289/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. fire-holder, censer, snuff-dish;—abs. מ׳ Lv 16:12; Nu 17:11; sf. מַחְתָּתוֹ Lv 10:1 + 4 times; pl. abs. מַחְתּוֹת Nu 16:6 + 4 times; מַחְתֹּת Nu 16:17 + 3 times; cstr. מַחְתּוֹת Nu 17:3, 4; sf. מַחְתֹּתָיו Ex 27:3; מַחְתֹּתֶיהָ Ex 25:38 + 2 times;— snuff-holder, snuff-dish (NowArchäol. ii, 63. 65) of gold Ex 25:38; 37:23 Nu 4:9 (all P). bronze utensils, fire-pans, belonging to altar of burnt-offerings Ex 27:3; 38:3, cf. Nu 4:14 (all P); fire-pans of gold 1 K 7:50 = 2 Ch 4:22, 2 K 25:15 = Je 52:19. censer, Lv 10:1; 16:12 Nu 16:6, 17(×4), 18; 17:2, 3, 4 (of bronze), v 11 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַחְתָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4289/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 25:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.38/)

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וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* and tongs its and fire-pans its \[will.be\].gold pure

*JPS 1917:* And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

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[Numbers 16:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.16.6/)

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זֹ֖את עֲשׂ֑וּ קְחוּ־לָכֶ֣ם מַחְתּ֔וֹת קֹ֖רַח וְכָל־עֲדָתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* this do take (for yourselves censers O.Korah and all company his

*JPS 1917:* This do: take you censors, Korah, and all his company;

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