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title: מֶלְקָחַיִם — tongs · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מֶלְקָחַיִם (4457), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 6 times: tongs. BDB 1906: du. tongs, snuffers. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מֶלְקָחַיִם

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«מֶלְקָחַיִם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **tongs** — 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:** 6 times · **Key:** 4457 · **BDB:** מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם

### Glosses

tongs (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

tongs [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4457/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

du. tongs, snuffers [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4457/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** \[מַלְקָחַיִם\] n.\[m.\]du. tongs, snuffers;— tongs used at altar of temple, for lifting coal, in Is.’s vision, Is 6:6. lamp-snuffers, in temple 1 K 7:49 = 2 Ch 4:21; in tabern. sf. (ref. to lamp-stand, מְנוֹרָה) מַלְקָחֶיהָ Ex 25:38; 37:23 Nu 4:9 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מֶלְקָחַיִם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4457/), 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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[2 Chronicles 4:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.4.21/)

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וְהַפֶּ֧רַח וְהַנֵּר֛וֹת וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִם זָהָ֑ב ה֖וּא מִכְל֥וֹת זָהָֽב׃

*Word for word:* and the blossom and the lamps and the tongs gold it \[was\].perfection(s) of.gold

*JPS 1917:* and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;

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