Lexicon
מִזְלָגָה
miz.la.gah
H4207B
H:N-M Hebrew

fork

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miz.la.gah denotes a plural item of altar or sanctuary equipment, listed among vessels made of bronze or gold.

The term is consistently listed in the plural among altar and sanctuary vessels: in Exodus and Numbers among equipment for the altar, and in Chronicles among gold or bronze implements for sacred-house furnishings.

Senses in use

  1. Altar and sanctuary equipment · dominant

    The plural forms occur in inventories of implements: in Exodus 27:3 the APB renders a list of altar vessels including “forks,” while Exodus 38:3 repeats them among vessels made of bronze. Numbers 4:14 includes them among the vessels used upon the altar, and 1 Chronicles 28:17 and 2 Chronicles 4:16 list them with gold or bronze furnishings for the house.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across all five verses, the APB presents the item as “forks” within lists of cultic vessels and utensils. This rendering is confirmed by the repeated list context rather than treated as a full lexical definition.

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