יָעyâʻ
shovels, utensils for cleaning altar (Exodus 27:3; Exodus 38:3; Numbers 4:14; 1 Kings 7:40; 1 Kings 7:45)
Pronunciation: yaw · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3257
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 9 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 27:3 Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.
- Exodus 38:3 Then he made all the altar utensils of bronze—the ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans.
- Numbers 4:14 All the altar utensils—the firepans, meat forks, shovels, basins, and all the containers—must be placed on the cloth, and a covering of fine goatskin leather must be spread over them. Finally, they must put the carrying poles in place.
- 1 Kings 7:40 He also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of the Lord:
- 1 Kings 7:45 the ash buckets, the shovels, and the bowls. Huram made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the Lord, just as King Solomon had directed.
- 2 Kings 25:14 They also took all the ash buckets, shovels, lamp snuffers, ladles, and all the other bronze articles used for making sacrifices at the Temple.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).