Mizraq is a sacred vessel — a large bowl or basin used in tabernacle and temple worship for sprinkling or tossing sacrificial blood against the altar. The word comes from the root zaraq meaning to toss or scatter (blood, water). These bowls were made of gold or silver and were numbered among the most holy temple furnishings.
The mizraq was central to atonement ritual: the blood of sacrifices was collected and then sprinkled or tossed against the altar by the priests. Hebrews 9 and 10 explain that this entire system pointed to Christ, whose blood was not thrown against a stone altar but offered once for all before the Father. Zechariah 9:15 uses mizraq as a vivid image of abundance — the corners of the altar soaked 'like sacrificial bowls.' In Zechariah 14:20-21, even common cooking pots will be 'like the sacred bowls before the altar' — a vision of total consecration in the coming age.