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Fork

Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

Credit: George E. Koronaios

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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)

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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.

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