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Credit: George E. Koronaios
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Bronze three-pronged fork. Bronze vessels and tools from Graves III, IV, and V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae. 16th century B.C.
Credit: Georges Jansoone (JoJan)
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Sickles, flails, three-pronged forks; ethnographic museum; MoÅ¡Äenice, Croatia
From ISBE: fork (shelosh qilleshon):
This compound word, meaning strictly "three points" or "three prongs," is found only once (1 Samuel 13:21), and doubtless there refers to the agricultural tool now known as the pitchfork. It might, however, also be a weapon.
Verses:
- Exodus 27:3
- Exodus 38:3
- Numbers 4:14
- 1 Samuel 2:13
- 1 Samuel 2:14
- 1 Samuel 13:21
- 1 Chronicles 28:17
- 2 Chronicles 4:16
- Isaiah 30:24
- Jeremiah 15:7
- Ezekiel 21:21
- Matthew 3:12
- Luke 3:17
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Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/apo/f/fork.html. 2024.
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/apo/f/fork.html. 2024.
