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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #4389 - מַכְתֵּשׁ
Transliteration
Maktêsh
Phonetics
mak-taysh'
Root Word (Etymology)
the same as (H4388)
Parts of Speech
masculine noun
TWOT
None
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs'
Maktesh = “a mortar” or “deep hollow”
1) a hollow or valley evidently in the greater Jerusalem area
Frequency Lists
- Book
- Word
Verse Results
KJV (1)
Zephaniah
1
NAS (1)
Zephaniah
1
HCS (1)
Zephaniah
1
BSB (1)
Zephaniah
1
ESV (1)
Zephaniah
1
WEB (1)
Zephaniah
1
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition
מַכְתֵּשׁ m. (from the root כָּתַשׁ).
(1) a mortar, Proverbs 27:22.
(2) Judges 15:19, prob. mortariolum dentium, Gr. ὁλμίσκος, socket of a tooth, see Bochart, Hieroz. t. i. p. 202. [Is it not a place of such a form that is spoken of in the cited passage?]
(3) Zephaniah 1:11 [Maktesh], pr.n. of a valley near Jerusalem, prob. so called from its resemblance to a mortar.
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List of Word Forms
הַמַּכְתֵּ֑שׁ המכתש hammachTesh
