melkach · snuffers, tongs

What it means

melkach (מֶלְקָח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “snuffers, tongs”.

Snuffers: tongs for trimming the wick of the lamps; also tongs for live coals (Isaiah 6:6).

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. Tweezers for wicks or for taking coals.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• snuffers ×5
• tongs ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×1

• Exodus 25:38

  Its snuffers and its trays shall be of pure gold.

• Exodus 37:23

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

• 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.

• 1 Kings 7:49

  and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of fine gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the snuffers, of gold;

• 2 Chronicles 4:21

  the flowers, the lamps, and the snuffers, of gold— it was perfect gold;

• Isaiah 6:6

  Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from on the altar.