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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; Mošćenice, 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
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​f/fork.html. 2024.
 
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