Fork
מַזְלֵגStrong’s H4207mazleg (maz-leg)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mazleg is the Hebrew word usually translated “forks”, “forks its” and “fork”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.”
Meaning
- Three-pronged fork
How it's translated
- the forks 3
- and forks its 1
- and the fork 1
- the fork 1
- and the forks 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- 1 Samuel 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 38:3And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.
- Numbers 4:14And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it.
- 1 Samuel 2:13And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
- 1 Samuel 2:14And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.
- 1 Chronicles 28:17Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:
- 2 Chronicles 4:16The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
Hebrew dictionary
מַזְלֵג mazleg · fork
three-pronged fork Another spelling of miz.la.gah (מִזְלָגָה "fork" H4207B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fork” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FORK, noun
[Latin furca.]
- an instrument consisting of a handle, and a blade of metal, divided into two or more points or prongs, used for lifting or pitching any thing; as a tablefork for feeding; a pitchfork; a dungfork, etc. forks are also made of ivory, wood or other material.
- A point; as a thunderbolt with three forks.
- Forks, in the plural, the point where a road parts into two; and the point where a river divides, or rather where two rivers meet and unite in one stream.
All definitions and other forms of “fork”
FORK, verb intransitive
- To shoot into blades, as corn.
- to divide into two; as, a road forks.
FORK, verb transitive
- to raise or pitch with a fork as hay.
- To dig and break ground with a fork
- To make sharp; to point.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.