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מַכְתֵּשׁ

Maktêsh · H4389 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Place

Meanings

  1. the Mortar

    Literally: mortar; exact meaning unknown; possibly: a relatively low part of Jerusalem used as market area, referred to as such because of its mortar-like shape

    Examples

    Zephaniah 1:11 “Wail, you inhabitants of the Mortar, Because all the people of Canaan will be destroyed; All who weigh out silver will be eliminated.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Tools001003001001017
This entry carries no independent "Tools" sense of its own; this lexeme's sole occurrence, Zephaniah 1:11, names the Mortar, a district or hollow within Jerusalem ("wail, you inhabitants of the Mortar District"), not a tool. The domain is bundle-shared with the underlying common noun for a mortar (a bowl-shaped grinding vessel), the object the district's basin-like shape was named for.
Landforms001002003
מַכְתֵּשׁ names the Mortar, a hollow or basin-shaped district within or near Jerusalem, illustrated at its sole occurrence, Zephaniah 1:11 ("wail, you inhabitants of the Mortar District").
Names of Constructions003001003
Maktesh genuinely names a district of Jerusalem, likely so called because it lay in a hollow, mortar-shaped depression of the terrain (Zephaniah 1:11).
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

כָּתַשׁ kâthash · H3806 · to pound · 1×מַכְתֵּשׁ maktêsh · H4388 · mortar, hollow place · 2×מַכְתֵּשׁMaktêsh · H4389

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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