Lexical Summary melqach or malqach: tongs, snuffers Original Word: מֶלְקָחTransliteration: melqach or malqach Phonetic Spelling: (mel-kawkh') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: tongs, snuffers Meaning: tongs, snuffers Strong's Concordance snuffers, tongs Or malqach {mal-kawkh'}; from laqach; (only in dual) tweezers -- snuffers, tongs. see HEBREW laqach Brown-Driver-Briggs H4457. melqach or malqach 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 2 Chronicles 4:21; in tabernacle suffix ( reference to lamp-stand, מְנוֺרָה) מַלְקָחֶיהָ Exodus 25:38; 37:23; Numbers 4:9 (all P). |
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