Fork
קִלְּשׁוֹןStrong’s H7053qillshon (qil-l-shon)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qillshon is the Hebrew word usually translated “fork”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.”
Meaning
- Forks, three-pronged pitchfork, goadmeaning uncertain
How it's translated
- fork 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
קִלְּשׁוֹן qillshon · fork
1) forks, three-pronged pitchfork, goad 1a) meaning uncertain
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.