מַחְתָּהmachtâh
fire-holder, censer, snuff-dish
Pronunciation: makh-taw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4289
Meanings
1. snuff-holder (Exodus 25:38; Exodus 37:23; Numbers 4:9)
2. bronze utensils, fire-pans, belonging to altar of burnt-offerings (Exodus 27:3; Exodus 38:3; Numbers 4:14)
3. censer (Leviticus 10:1; Leviticus 16:12; Numbers 16:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 22 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 25:38 The lamp snuffers and trays must also be made of pure gold.
- Exodus 27:3 Make ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans, all of bronze.
- Exodus 37:23 He also made seven lamps for the lampstand, lamp snuffers, and trays, all of pure gold.
- Exodus 38:3 Then he made all the altar utensils of bronze—the ash buckets, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans.
- Leviticus 10:1 Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu put coals of fire in their incense burners and sprinkled incense over them. In this way, they disobeyed the Lord by burning before him the wrong kind of fire, different than he had commanded.
- Leviticus 16:12 he will fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the Lord. Then he will take two handfuls of fragrant powdered incense and will carry the burner and the incense behind the inner curtain.
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).