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Small shovel, firepan

Human-made Things in the Bible

The firepan was used to move or turn coals on the altar and to carry them to the altar of incense for other purposes (see Incense altar).

Pictures

A bronze firepan or incense shovel (Roman, late 1st–early 2nd c. CE)
A bronze firepan or incense shovel (Roman, late 1st–early 2nd c. CE)Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, MMA

In the Bible

The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used

מַחְתָּה machtah · 17 verses

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Also in Tabernacle and Temple implements

Pan, pot, pail10 versesFork7 versesTongs7 versesBasin, bowl41 versesLarge shovel, scraper9 versesCenser8 versesPlate17 versesIncense dish23 versesJar for the wine offering, libation vessel5 verses

Sources

Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema