Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything. 2. (n.) Anything furcated or like a fork in shape, or furcated at the extremity; as, a tuning fork. 3. (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow. 4. (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road. 5. (n.) The gibbet. 6. (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn. 7. (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks. 8. (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FORK fork (shelosh qilleshon): This compound word, meaning strictly "three points" or "three prongs," is found only once (1 Samuel 13:21), and doubtless there refers to the agricultural tool now known as the pitchfork. It might, however, also be a weapon.

Multi-Version Concordance Fork (8 Occurrences) Matthew 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire." (WEB NAS RSV NIV) Luke 3:17 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." (See NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 2:13 The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was boiling, with a fork of three teeth in his hand; (WEB NAS RSV NIV) 1 Samuel 2:14 and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fork brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there. (WEB NAS RSV NIV) Isaiah 30:24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork. (WEB ASV BBE NAS RSV NIV) Jeremiah 15:7 I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they didn't return from their ways. (See NAS RSV NIV) Ezekiel 21:21 For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver. (See NIV) Obadiah 1:14 Don't stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don't deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress. (See NAS)