מְזַמְּרָה
mezamra · tongs
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4212 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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mezamra (מְזַמְּרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “tongs”.
Small tongs, or snuffers, for cutting the burnt wick of the lamps. It is used only in the plural.
How to say it
me·zam·ra
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
- Pincers for trimming lamp wicks.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 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 12:13
But there were not made for the house of YHWH basins of silver, tongs, bowls, trumpets, any vessels of gold or vessels of silver, from the silver that was brought into the house of YHWH;
- 2 Kings 25:14
The pots, the shovels, the tongs, the spoons, and all the utensils of bronze with which they ministered, they 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 52:18
The pots, the shovels, the tongs, the bowls, the spoons, and all the utensils of bronze with which they ministered, they took.