4457. melqach or malqach
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melqach or malqach: tongs, snuffers
Original Word: מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: melqach or malqach
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-kawkh')
Short Definition: snuffers

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from laqach
Definition
tongs, snuffers
NASB Translation
snuffers (3), tongs (3).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם, [מַלְקָחַיִם] noun [masculine] dual tongs, snuffers; —

1 tongs used at altar of temple, for lifting coal, in Isaiah's vision, Isaiah 6:6.

2 lamp snuffers, in temple 1 Kings 7:49 2Chronicles 4:21; in tabernacle suffix ( reference to lamp-stand, מְנוֺרָה) מַלְקָחֶיהָ Exodus 25:38; Exodus 37:23; Numbers 4:9 (all P).



Strong's
snuffers, tongs

Or malqach {mal-kawkh'}; from laqach; (only in dual) tweezers -- snuffers, tongs.

see HEBREW laqach

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