ma.cha.laph denotes knives listed among gold and silver vessels.

The attested use names knives as items in an enumerated list of gold and silver vessels.

1. Knives in an inventory of vessels · dominant

   In Ezra 1:9, the masculine plural absolute form occurs as part of a numbered inventory following gold and silver basins; the APB renders the final listed items “twenty-nine knives.”

   Ezra 1:9

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Ezra 1:9, the APB presents the item as “knives” in a list of vessels.