Bowl
מִזְרָקStrong’s H4219mizraq (miz-raq)
Appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mizraq is the Hebrew word usually translated “bowl”, “bowls” and “bowls of”. It appears in 32 verses of the Old Testament.
“The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.”
Meaning
- Bowl, basinbowl (for wine) · basin (vessel for throwing or tossing a liquid)
How it's translated
- a bowl 12
- the bowls 8
- and the bowls 3
- bowls of 2
- bowls 2
- and bowls its 1
- the bowl 1
- in bowls of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 15
- 1 Kings 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- Exodus 2
- 2 Kings 2
- Jeremiah 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 14:20In contextIn that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
- Exodus 27:3And 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.
- 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.
- Numbers 7:13And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- Numbers 7:19He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
Hebrew dictionary
מִזְרָק mizraq · bowl
1) bowl, basin 1a) bowl (for wine) 1b) basin (vessel for throwing or tossing a liquid)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bowl” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BOWL, noun
[In Latin, vola is the hollow of the hand.]
- A concave vessel to hold liquors, rather wide than deep, and thus distinguished from a cup, which is rather deep than wide.
- The hollow part of any thing; as the bowl of a spoon.
- A basin; a fountain.
All definitions and other forms of “bowl”
BOWL, noun
A ball of wood used for play on a level plat of ground.
BOWL, verb intransitive
To play with bowls, or at bowling.
BOWL, verb transitive
To roll as a bowl; also, to pelt with any thing rolled.
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.