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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #4389 - מַכְתֵּשׁ

Transliteration

Maktêsh

Phonetics

mak-taysh'

Origin

the same as (H4388)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Maktesh = "a mortar" or "deep hollow"
1. a hollow or valley evidently in the greater Jerusalem area

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Zephaniah 1

BSB (1)

Zephaniah 1

CSB (1)

Zephaniah 1

ESV (1)

Zephaniah 1

KJV (1)

Zephaniah 1

LEB (1)

Zephaniah 1

LSB (1)

Zephaniah 1

N95 (1)

Zephaniah 1

NAS (1)

Zephaniah 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

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