מַחְתָּה machtah

Hebrew word for “censer” · Strong’s H4289 · used 22 times in 19 verses

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Meaning

1) fire-holder, censer, firepan, snuff dish, tray; 1a) snuff-dish; 1b) fire-pans; 1c) censer

How it is translated

Glosses given for machtah in context, with how often each is used:

• fire-pans 10
• censer 7
• censers 5

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 16 (7), Numbers 4 (2), Exodus 25 (1), Exodus 27 (1), Exodus 37 (1), Exodus 38 (1), Leviticus 10 (1), Leviticus 16 (1), 1 Kings 7 (1), 2 Kings 25 (1)

Forms

• מחתתו 5
• המחתת 3
• מחתות 3
• ומחתתיה 2
• המחתה 2
• והמחתות 2
• המחתות 2
• ומחתתיו 1
• מחתתיה 1
• מחתת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with machtah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מִזְרָק mizraq “bowl” 7
• לָקַח laqach “to take” 10
• קְטֹרֶת qetoret “incense” 5
• זָהָב zahav “gold” 6
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 6
• מֶלְקָחַיִם melqach “tong” 3
• מִזְלָגָה mizlagah “fork” 3
• יָע ya “shovel” 3
• אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 5
• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 5
• סִיר sir “pot” 3
• קָרַב qarav “to present” 4

Key verses

The verses using machtah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 27:3 — And 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…
• Exodus 37:23 — And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
• Leviticus 10:1 — And 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…
• Leviticus 16:12 — And 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…
• 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…
• Numbers 16:6 — This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;
• Numbers 16:38 — The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD,…
• Numbers 16:46 — And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an…
• 1 Kings 7:50 — And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house,…
• 2 Kings 25:15 — And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
• 2 Chronicles 4:22 — And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place,…
• Jeremiah 52:19 — And the basons, and the firepans, and the bowls, and the caldrons, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups; that which was of gold in gold, and that…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.