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Credit: Rogers Fund, 1903. Metropolitan Museum of Art

License: CC0 1.0

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Etruscan Iron fire-tongs. Late 4th or early 3rd century B.C.

 

Credit: Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China

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Comments: Bronze Trident & Tongs for Sacrificial Offerings, 14th-13th C. BC. Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. Complete indexed photo collection at WorldHistoryPics.com.

 

Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

License: Public Domain

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Comments: Bronze Tongs. Between circa 1000 and circa 650 B.C.

 

Credit: Los Angeles County Museum of Art

License: Public Domain

Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: Ritual Tongs in the Shape of Human Hands and Arms. Egypt, probably New Kingdom (1569 - 1081 BCE) or later.

 

From ISBE: tongz (melqachayim): This word is, where it occurs in the King James Version and the English Revised Version, with two exceptions, changed in the American Standard Revised Version into "snuffers" (Exodus 25:38; Numbers 4:9; 2 Chronicles 4:21; see SNUFFERS), The exceptions are 1 Kings 7:49, "tongs of gold," and Isaiah 6:6, "taken with the tongs from off the altar."


In Isaiah 44:12, where another word (ma`atsadh) is used, "the smith with the tongs" of the King James Version is changed in the Revised Version (British and American) into "the smith maketh an axe" (compare Jeremiah 10:3).


See also ALTAR; TOOLS.

Verses:

  • Exodus 25:38
  • Exodus 37:23
  • Numbers 4:9
  • 1 Kings 7:49
  • 2 Chronicles 4:21
  • Isaiah 6:6
  • Isaiah 44:12
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​t/tongs.html. 2024.
 
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