מַכְתֵּשׁ
maktêsh · H4388 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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mortar
A bowl-shaped vessel, usually made of stone or another strong material, in which a substance such as seeds is pounded or crushed with a pestle
ExamplesProverbs 27:22 Though you pound the fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, His foolishness still will not leave him.
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hollow place
Literally: mortar; hence: a hollow place in the earth, referred to as such because of its mortar-like shape
ExamplesJudges 15:19 But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi so that water came out of it. When he drank, his strength returned and he revived. Therefore he named it En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לֶחִיjaw 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בָּקַעto split, to break open 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
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- מַכְתֵּשׁ names a mortar, a bowl-shaped vessel used with a pestle to crush grain, as in Proverbs 27:22's image of pounding "the fool in a mortar with a pestle."
- Landforms001002003
- The same word also names a hollow or bowl-shaped depression in the terrain, as in the rock crevice at Lehi that God split open for Samson to drink from (Judges 15:19).
- Names of Constructions003001003
- The fact-packet data also assigns the Names of Constructions domain, shared with its place-name homograph Maktesh (מַכְתֵּשׁ (Maktêsh, H4389)), a district of Jerusalem named for its mortar-like, bowl-shaped depression (Zephaniah 1:11).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4388. maktesh מַכְתֵּשׁ noun masculine mortar (place of pounding, braying; compare…
מַכְתֵּשׁ noun masculine mortar (place of pounding, braying; compare Palmyrene proper name, masculine מכתש = contundens VogNo. 97) — absolute ׳מ Pro 27:22 (see foregoing); hollow resembling a mortar Jdg 15:19 (whence came forth a water-spring; compare GFM), Zep 1:11 +? Jerusalem, compare SchwZAW x. (1890), 173 f.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
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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