Censer
מַחְתָּהStrong’s H4289machtah (mach-tah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machtah is the Hebrew word usually translated “censer his”, “fire-pans” and “fire-pans its”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.”
Meaning
- Fire-holder, censer, firepan, snuff dish, traysnuff-dish · fire-pans · censer
How it's translated
- censer his 5
- the fire-pans 4
- and fire-pans its 3
- censers 2
- censers of 2
- and the fire-pans 2
- censer 1
- fire-pans its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 9
- Exodus 4
- Leviticus 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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 37:23And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
- 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.
- Leviticus 10:1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
- Leviticus 16:12And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
- Numbers 4:9And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
Hebrew dictionary
מַחְתָּה machtah · censer
1) fire-holder, censer, firepan, snuff dish, tray 1a) snuff-dish 1b) fire-pans 1c) censer
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “censer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CENSER, noun
A vase or pan in which incense is burned. Among the Jews, a kind of chafing-dish, covered by a dome, and suspended by a chain, used to offer perfumes in sacrifices.
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.