Strong's #4457: melqach (pronounced mel-kawkh')

or malqach {mal-kawkh'}; from 3947; (only in dual) tweezers:--snuffers, tongs.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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melqâch

1) snuffers, tongs

1a) tongs (for altar use)

1b) snuffers (for lamps in temple or tabernacle)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H3947

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Exodus 25:38: " And the tongs thereof, and the censers thereof, shall be of pure gold."
Exodus 37:23: "his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his censers, of pure gold."
Numbers 4:9: "the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his censers, and all the oil vessels"
1 Kings 7:49: "on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,"
2 Chronicles 4:21: "And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;"
Isaiah 6:6: "me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:"