machta · fire pan, censer

What it means

machta (מַחְתָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fire pan, censer”.

A small pan or tray for carrying coals and the trimmings of the wicks; also a censer.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A pan for coals or incense.
2. A small dish for wick trimmings.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• censer ×7
• firepans ×7
• censers ×5
• trays ×3

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×4
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×12
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 25:38

  Its snuffers and its trays shall be of pure gold.

• Exodus 27:3

  You shall make its pots for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its bowls, its forks, and its firepans; all its utensils you shall make of bronze.

• Exodus 37:23

  And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.

• Exodus 38:3

  And he made all the utensils of the altar, the pots and the shovels and the bowls, the forks and the firepans; all its utensils he made of bronze.

• Leviticus 10:1

  The sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, each took his censer, put fire in them, laid incense on it, and presented before YHWH strange fire that he had not commanded them.

• Leviticus 16:12

  And he shall take a full censer of coals of fire from the altar before YHWH, and two handfuls of fine fragrant incense, and bring it inside the veil.

• Numbers 4:9

  And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and all its vessels for oil with which they minister to it.

• Numbers 4:14

  And they shall put on it all its utensils with which they minister on it: the firepans, the forks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread over it a covering of fine leather, and put in its poles.

• Numbers 16:6

  Do this: take censers for yourselves, Korah and all his community,

• Numbers 16:17

  And take, each man, his censer and put incense on them, and present before YHWH, each man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; and you and Aaron, each his censer.”

• Numbers 16:18

  So they took, each man, his censer and put fire on them and laid incense on them, and stood at the entrance of the tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

• Numbers 16:37

  “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers from among the burning, and scatter the fire far away, for they have become holy,

• Numbers 16:38

  the censers of these sinners at the cost of their lives. And let them make them into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they presented them before YHWH, and they became holy; and they shall be a sign to the sons of Israel.”

• Numbers 16:39

  So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that those who were burned had presented, and they hammered them into a covering for the altar,

• Numbers 16:46

  And Moses said to Aaron, “Take the censer and put fire in it from the altar, and lay on it incense, and carry it quickly to the community and make expiation for them, for wrath has gone out from the presence of YHWH; the plague has begun.”

• 1 Kings 7:50

  and the cups, and the tongs, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans, of fine gold; and the sockets for the doors of the inner house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the house, the temple, of gold.

• 2 Kings 25:15

  The firepans and the bowls, what was gold, in gold, and what was silver, in silver, the chief of the guard took.

• 2 Chronicles 4:22

  the tongs, the bowls, the spoons, and the firepans, of fine gold; and the entrance of the house: its inner doors for the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the house for the temple, of gold.

• Jeremiah 52:19

  The cups, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the libation bowls, what was gold, in gold, and what was silver, in silver, the chief of the guard took.

And 3 more times.