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Tongs
TONGS (Heb. melqāhayim). In the Hebrew the word usually means wicktrimmers (kjv “snuffers”), and is used with a tray (kjv “snuffdish”) (
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)
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" (
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See also ALTAR; TOOLS.