מִזְרָק
basin
‘basin’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 14 times (44%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 14 times (44%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 4 times (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 32 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4219 appears — 32 distinct verses across 10 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 27:3 וּ/מִזְרְקֹתָ֔י/ו conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms 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.
- Exodus 38:3 הַ/מִּזְרָקֹ֔ת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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 15 verses
- Numbers 4:14 הַ/מִּזְרָקֹ֔ת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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.
- Numbers 7:13 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms 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 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms 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 7:25 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and 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 7:31 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:37 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:43 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:49 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:55 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:61 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:67 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:73 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:79 מִזְרָ֤ק n c ms gave 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 7:84 מִֽזְרְקֵי n c mp cs This was the dedication of the altar, on the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve silver platters, twelve silver bowls, twelve golden ladles;
- Numbers 7:85 הַ/מִּזְרָ֣ק ptcl def.art + n c ms each silver platter weighing one hundred thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;
1 Kings 3 verses
- 1 Kings 7:40 הַ/מִּזְרָק֑וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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:
- 1 Kings 7:45 הַ/מִּזְרָק֗וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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 7:50 וְ/הַ/מִּזְרָק֛וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp 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 2 verses
- 2 Kings 12:13 מִזְרָקוֹת֙ n c mp But there were not made for the house of Yahweh cups of silver, snuffers, basins, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house of Yahweh;
- 2 Kings 25:15 הַ/מִּזְרָק֗וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp The fire pans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 4:8 מִזְרְקֵ֥י n c mp cs 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 הַ/מִּזְרָק֑וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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 4:22 וְ/הַ/מִּזְרָק֛וֹת conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp 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.
Nehemiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 2 verses
- Jeremiah 52:18 הַ/מִּזְרָקֹ֣ת ptcl def.art + n c mp 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.
- Jeremiah 52:19 הַ/מִּזְרָק֜וֹת ptcl def.art + n c mp The cups, and the fire pans, and the basins, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the spoons, and the bowls-that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver,-the captain of the guard took away.
Amos 1 verse
Zechariah 2 verses
- Zechariah 9:15 כַּ/מִּזְרָ֔ק prep det + n c ms Yahweh of Hosts will defend them; And they will destroy and overcome with sling-stones; And they will drink, and roar as through wine; And they will be filled like bowls, Like the corners of the altar.
- Zechariah 14:20 כַּ/מִּזְרָקִ֖ים prep det + n c mp In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מזרק — transliterated mizrâq — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “basin.” The King James Version usually renders it “bowl,” while modern versions prefer “basin” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 32 verses in 10 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Numbers (47% of all occurrences). It is not a single-sense word — see its full sense range. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4219 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 32
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 32 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,086
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,086 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 32 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 15 verses 47%
- 1 Kings 3 verses 9%
- 2 Chronicles 3 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 32 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 17 verses · 53%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 10 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 16%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bowl 13×, Basons 11×, Bowls 6×
- American Standard Version: Basins 14×, Bowl 11×, Bowls 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bowl 13×, Sprinkling bowls 13×, Bowls 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Basin 13×, Basins 9×, Bowls 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4219 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4219 across 33 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4219 across 32 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4219 across 31 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. bowl for wine Am 6:6. e.g. Amos 6:6
- 2. elsewhere for use in ritual of sacrifice:
- a. for use at altar Ex 27:3; 38:3 Nu 4:14 (all P), 1 K 7:40; 45 Je 52:18 Zc 9:15; 14:20. e.g. Exodus 27:3
- b. given by the princes full of flour mingled with oil for a מנחה Nu 7:13, 19, 25, 31, 37, 43, 49, 55, 61, 67, 73, 79, 84, 85 (P). e.g. Numbers 7:13
- c. golden basons for use in the temple 1 K 7:50 2 K 12:14; 25:15 1 Ch 28:17 2 Ch 4:8, 11, 22 Je 52:19. e.g. 1 Kings 7:50
- d. golden basons for the second temple Ne 7:70. e.g. Nehemiah 7:69
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Nu 7:84 bowl, bason (proposes vessel for throwing or tossing a liquid); מ׳ Nu 7:13 + 13 times, pl. מִזְרָקִים Zc 14:20, cstr. מִזְרְקֵי Nu 7:84 + 2 times, מִזְרָקוֹת Ne 7:70 + 9 times, מִזְרָקֹת Ex 38:3 + 2 times, sf. מִזְרְקֹתָיו Ex 27:3;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זרק (zâraq) (H2236) — to scatter.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מִזְרָק
- the bowl out of which the sprinkling is done. Yoma IV, 3 קבל במ׳ וכ׳ received the blood in the bowl. Num. R. s. 13 מ׳ כנגד היבשה the bowl is typical of the dry land; a. v. fr.
מִזְרַק
- 1. same. Targ. O. Num. VII, 13 מַזְ׳ ed. Berl. (Mss. מִזְ׳, מַזִּרְ׳; Y. מַזִּירְקָא, מזרק); a. fr.—Pl. מִזְרְקַיָּא, מַזִּירְ׳. Targ. O. Ex. XXVII, 3 מַזִּירְק׳ ed. Berl. (Y. מְזִירְ׳). Targ. Zech. XIV, 20.
- 2. blood-vessel, jugular vain.—Pl. מִזְרְקֵי, מִיזְ׳, מַזִּירְ׳ the neck with the jugular veins. Ḥull. 93ᵇ; Pes. 74ᵇ מזיר׳. Ib. (used as a sing.) וכן מ׳ חתכיה וכ׳ (missing in Ms. M.) and so the neck-piece, if he cut it &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 16 distinct written forms H4219 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 31 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 32 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 27:3
- Numbers 4:14
- 1 Kings 7:40
- 2 Kings 12:13
- 1 Chronicles 28:17
- 2 Chronicles 4:8
- Jeremiah 52:18
- Amos 6:6
- Zechariah 9:15
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
