mazleg · fork

What it means

mazleg (מַזְלֵג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fork”.

A large fork for handling the meat of the sacrifices.

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 pronged tool for the meat of sacrifices.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• forks ×5
• fork ×2

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Numbers×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 1 Samuel 2:13

  And the custom of the priests with the people was this: whenever any man sacrificed a sacrifice, the priest’s young man would come while the meat was boiling, with a fork of three prongs in his hand,

• 1 Samuel 2:14

  and he would thrust it into the pan or the kettle or the cauldron or the pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took with it. So they did to all Israel who came there to Shiloh.

• 1 Chronicles 28:17

  and the forks, the bowls, and the jars of pure gold; and for the cups of gold, by weight for each cup; and for the cups of silver, by weight for each cup;

• 2 Chronicles 4:16

  and the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of YHWH, of polished bronze.