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Censer

מַחְתָּהStrong’s H4289

machtah (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.”
Exodus 25:38 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.