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Bible Lexicons
Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary Hebrew Lexicon
Strong's #4388 - מַכְתֵּשׁ
Transliteration
maktêsh
Phonetics
mak-taysh'
Root Word (Etymology)
from (H3806)
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TWOT
1061a
Definition
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
Brown-Driver-Briggs'
1) mortar
Greek Equivalent Words:
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Verse Results
KJV (2)
Judges
1
Proverbs
1
NAS (2)
Judges
1
Proverbs
1
HCS (2)
Judges
1
Proverbs
1
BSB (2)
Judges
1
Proverbs
1
ESV (2)
Judges
1
Proverbs
1
WEB (2)
Judges
1
Proverbs
1
Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions
2301) stk (כתסה KTSh) AC: Pound CO: Mortar AB: ?: A hollowed out stone bowl used to crush seeds, herbs or other plant material for food or medicine.
V) stk (כתסה KTSh) - Pound: KJV (1): (vf: Paal) bray - Strongs: H3806 (כָּתַשׁ)
am) stkm (מכתסה MKTSh) - Mor |kjv: hollow, mortar - Strongs: H4388 (מַכְתֵּשׁ)
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Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
מַכְתֵּשׁ noun masculine mortar (place of pounding, braying; compare Palmyrene proper name, masculine מכתש = contundens Vog No. 97) — absolute ׳מ Proverbs 27:22 (see foregoing); hollow resembling a mortar Judges 15:19 (whence came forth a water-spring; compare GFM), Zephaniah 1:11 #NAME? Jerusalem, compare Schw ZAW x. (1890), 173 f.
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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
בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ במכתש הַמַּכְתֵּ֣שׁ המכתש bam·maḵ·têš bammachTesh bammaḵtêš ham·maḵ·têš hammachTesh hammaḵtêš
