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Strong’s Hebrew

H4457 — melqach

The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.

מֶלְקָח

melqach — pronounced mel-kawkh

or malqach {mal-kawkh'}; from 3947; (only in dual) tweezers:--snuffers, tongs. see H03947

6 occurrences in the KJV.

Exodus 25:38

And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

Exodus 37:23

And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

Numbers 4:9

And 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:

1 Kings 7:49

And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

2 Chronicles 4:21

And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

Isaiah 6:6

Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: