מַזְלֵגmazlêg

מַזְלֵג: apparently a sacrificial implement, three-pronged fork (1 Samuel 2:13; 1 Samuel 2:14)

Pronunciation: maz-layg' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4207

Meanings

מִזְלָגָה: id., a sacrificial implement (Exodus 38:3; Numbers 4:14; 1 Chronicles 28:17; 2 Chronicles 4:16; Exodus 27:3)

Where it appears

Appears 7 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 Samuel 2:13 or for their duties as priests. Whenever anyone offered a sacrifice, Eli’s sons would send over a servant with a three-pronged fork. While the meat of the sacrificed animal was still boiling,
  • 1 Samuel 2:14 the servant would stick the fork into the pot and demand that whatever it brought up be given to Eli’s sons. All the Israelites who came to worship at Shiloh were treated this way.
  • 1 Chronicles 28:17 David also designated the amount of gold for the solid gold meat hooks used to handle the sacrificial meat and for the basins, pitchers, and dishes, as well as the amount of silver for every dish.
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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).