Jeremiah 52:18

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.

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הַֽמְזַמְּר֜וֹת

mᵉzammᵉrâh

H4212

“the · snuffers”

Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 1 Kings 7:50

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2168

TWOT: 559d

snuffers (temple utensil)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

18: words
12: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is הַֽמְזַמְּר֜וֹת snuffers H4212 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַֽמְזַמְּר֜וֹת snuffers H4212 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
8 nouns
1 preposition
7 particles

Verb forms

יְשָׁרְת֥וּ Piel · Imperfect
לָקָֽחוּ Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In the original languages it is 18 Hebrew tokens and 20 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 52:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 27:3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
Numbers 4:14 They shall put on it all its vessels, with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the flesh hooks, the shovels, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
1 Kings 7:45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished brass.
1 Kings 7:40 Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
Exodus 25:29 You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
Exodus 37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
Exodus 37:23 He made its seven lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, of pure gold.
Exodus 38:3 He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the flesh-hooks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.

Numbers 4:7 On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
Numbers 7:13–14 and his offering was: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
Numbers 7:19–20 He offered for his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
Numbers 7:26 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
Numbers 7:32 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
Numbers 7:38 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
Numbers 7:44 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
Numbers 7:50 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;

Numbers 7:56 one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
1 Kings 7:50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple, of gold.
2 Kings 25:14–16 The pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.
1 Chronicles 28:17 and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
2 Chronicles 4:8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
2 Chronicles 4:11 Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he did for king Solomon in the house of God:
2 Chronicles 4:16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the flesh-hooks, and all the vessels of it, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of Yahweh of bright brass.
2 Chronicles 4:22 and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold: and as for the entry of the house, the inner doors of it for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple, were of gold.

Ezra 1:10 thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.
Ezekiel 46:20–24 He said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, [and] where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they not bring them forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Jeremiah 52:18 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת הַ֠סִּרוֹת וְאֶת הַיָּעִ֨ים וְאֶת הַֽמְזַמְּר֜וֹת וְאֶת הַמִּזְרָקֹ֣ת וְאֶת הַכַּפּ֗וֹת וְאֵ֨ת כָּל כְּלֵ֧י הַנְּחֹ֛שֶׁת אֲשֶׁר יְשָׁרְת֥וּ בָהֶ֖ם לָקָֽחוּ

The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took they away.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וְיַת דוּדַיָא וְיַת מַגְרוֹפְיָתָא וְיַת מְזַמְרַיָא וְיַת מִזְרְקַיָא וְיַת בָּזִיכַיָא וְיַת כָּל מָנֵי נְחָשָׁא דַהֲווֹ מְשַׁמְשִׁין בְּהוֹן נְסִיבוּ:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 52:18 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Which were also made of brass, as 1 Kings 7:45.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

(Exo 27:3).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 18. - 23. In reference to these verses see the parallel texts in the margin, the various readings there, and the notes. (Ex 27:3; 2Kg 25:14-16; 1Kg 7:47; 1Kg 7:15; 2Ch 3:15; 1Kg 7:20)

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(18-20) The caldrons also, and the shovels . . .—The list in 2Ki_25:14-16 omits the basons, the caldrons, the candlesticks, and the cups; in Jer_52:15 it gives the definite article in the Hebrew “the one sea,” and omits the “twelve brasen bulls. Strictly speaking, the bases (1Ki_7:27) were under the ten lavers which were used for washing the meat for the sacrifices, and the twelve bulls (1Ki_7:25) supported the molten sea, or bigger laver, for the priests’ ablutions; 2Ki_16:17 suggests the thought that the bulk of the bronze had been removed by Ahaz and given to Tiglath Pileser, though possibly not taken away by him.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

18. pots] See 1Ki_7:45. They were used (Exo_27:3) for the altar of burnt offering.

snuffers] for the lamps (Exo_25:38; Num_4:9).

basons] lit. tossing-vessels, to toss (not “sprinkle” as in E.VV. in Lev_1:5; Lev_1:11; Lev_3:2, etc.), the blood of the sacrifices against the sides of the altar.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And the basins,.... Or "bowls"; these are omitted, Kg2 25:15; they were of gold, Kg1 7:50;

and the firepans; or "censers"; these were those of gold, which belonged to the golden altar, Kg1 7:50;

and the bowls; or "basins"; there were a hundred of them made of gold, Ch2 4:8;

and the cauldrons; or "pots"; these are not mentioned, Kg2 25:15; what they should be, that were either of gold or silver, cannot be said:

and the candlesticks; of which there were ten in number, made of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, Kg1 7:49;

and the spoons; which were also of gold, Kg1 7:50;

and the cups: the word is rendered "bowls", to cover withal, Exo 25:29; it was some kind of instrument or vessel used about the shewbread table, made of pure gold; according to Jarchi, these were little golden forks, upon which they placed the shewbread, to keep it from moulding; according to the Misna (c), there were four of them:

that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, took the captain of the guard away; that is, everything that was of gold or silver he took away; the golden things by themselves, and the silver things by themselves, as some think.

(c) Menachot, c. 11. sect. 6.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

The caldrons also: these were called pots, 2Ki 25:14.

And the shovels; which were to remove the ashes from the altar.

The snuffers: some think that this word in this place were better translated tongs, because he is speaking of instruments of brass; and that those utensils are not here understood with which they snuffed the lamps, because they were of gold. The bowls, or basons; it is uncertain which is here intended, there being in the temple both bowls to drink in, and also basens to receive the blood of the sacrifices.

The spoons; the word is such as may signify ladles, or cups, or dishes.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 18 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mᵉzammᵉrâh (“snuffers”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “snuffers” (mᵉzammᵉrâh) shape what this verse is saying?
How does 1 Kings 7:50, which shares the word «snuffers», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«יְשָׁרְת֥וּ» is a Piel Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Geneva Bible (1599) and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 18 Hebrew ↔ 20 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 21 words in this verse.
12 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 18 words in this verse.