מְדֹכָה
mᵉdôkâh · H4085 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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mortar
Cup-shaped container usually made of wood, in which ingredients are crushed or ground
ExamplesNumbers 11:8 The people would roam about and gather it and grind it between two millstones, or pound it in the mortar, and boil it in the pot and make loaves with it; and its taste was like the taste of cake baked with oil.
How it’s used In 1 role
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1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מַכְתֵּשׁ maktêsh · H4388 · mortar, hollow place
- Hebrew synonym for a mortar or grinding vessel, attested in Proverbs 27:22 for the same implement used to grind substances
- רֵחֶה rêcheh · H7347 · hand-mill
- Related grinding implement, though typically larger and used for grinding grain rather than the smaller vessel for crushing spices or other substances
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מְדֹכָה denotes a mortar used for grinding, as in Numbers 11:8's manna gathered and beaten "in the mortar," placing it among crafted tools.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4085. medokah מְדֹכָה noun feminine mortar, Num 11:8.
מְדֹכָה noun feminine mortar, Num 11:8.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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