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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Fork
Dictionaries
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Winnowing Fork, Winnowing Shovel
• Fork
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Forked Cross
• Cross, Forked
Webster Dictionary
• Forking
• Forked
• Fork-Tailed
•   (only first 3 shown)
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Caudine Forks
• Fork
• Grand Forks, Columbia
•   (only first 3 shown)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Fork
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Fork
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Caudine Forks
Lexicons
• πτύον
• מִזְלָג מַזְלֵג, , מִזְלָגָה
• מִזְרֶה
• פֶּרֶק
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fôrk ( שׁלשׁ קלּשׁון , shelōsh ḳilleshōn ): 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.