hebrew #4457 - מֶלְקָח melqach or malqach (tongs)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Or malqach {mal-kawkh'}; from laqach; (only in dual) tweezers -- snuffers, tongs.

see HEBREW laqach

Englishman's Concordance

Brown-Driver-Briggs

1tongs used at altar of temple, for lifting coal, in Isaiah's vision, Isaiah 6:6.

2lampsnuffers, in temple 1 Kings 7:49 2Chronicles 4:21; in tabernacle suffix ( reference to lamp-stand, מְנוֺרָה) מַלְקָחֶיהָExodus 25:38; Exodus 37:23; Numbers 4:9 (all P).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4457. מֶלְקָחַ֫יִם (melqach or malqach) — 6 Occurrences

Exodus 25:38
HEB: וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב
NAS:Its snuffers and their trays
KJV:And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes
INT:snuffers and their trays gold

Exodus 37:23
HEB:נֵרֹתֶ֖יהָ שִׁבְעָ֑ה וּמַלְקָחֶ֥יהָ וּמַחְתֹּתֶ֖יהָ זָהָ֥ב
NAS: lamps with its snuffers and its trays
KJV: lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes,
INT: lamps seven snuffers trays gold

Numbers 4:9
HEB:נֵ֣רֹתֶ֔יהָ וְאֶת־ מַלְקָחֶ֖יהָ וְאֶת־ מַחְתֹּתֶ֑יהָ
NAS: along with its lamps and its snuffers, and its trays
KJV: and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes,
INT: the light lamps snuffers trays and all

1 Kings 7:49
HEB:וְהַפֶּ֧רַח וְהַנֵּרֹ֛ת וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִם זָהָֽב׃
NAS: and the lamps and the tongs, of gold;
KJV: and the lamps, and the tongs [of] gold,
INT: and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs of gold

2 Chronicles 4:21
HEB:וְהַפֶּ֧רַח וְהַנֵּר֛וֹת וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִם זָהָ֑ב ה֖וּא
NAS: the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
KJV: and the lamps, and the tongs, [made he of] gold,
INT: the flowers the lamps and the tongs of gold he

Isaiah 6:6
HEB:וּבְיָד֖וֹ רִצְפָּ֑ה בְּמֶ֨לְקַחַ֔יִם לָקַ֖ח מֵעַ֥ל
NAS: from the altar with tongs.
KJV: [which] he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
INT: his hand A burning tongs had taken from