Strong's Lexicon

H4115

H4115 — מַהפֶּכֶת

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewmahpekethnoun femOccurrences: 4TWOT: 512d

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4115
Word:	מַהפֶּכֶת
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	from H2015
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	4
Transliteration:	mahpeketh
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mah-peh'-keth
Meaning:	1. a wrench, i.e. the stocks
KJV Renderings:	prison, stocks.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB2216

מַהְפֶּ֫כֶת noun feminine stocks or similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture, or distorting), mentioned rather late; as punishment for Jeremiah אֲשֶׁר בְּשֹׁעַר בִּנְיָמִן ׳ הַמּ Jer 20:2 ( ᵐ5 εἱς τὸν καταράκτην κ.τ.λ.), compare ׳ אֶלהַֿמּ Jer 29:26 ( ᵐ5 εἰς τὸ ἀπόκλεισμα; || אֶלהַֿצִּינֹק, ᵐ5 εἰς τὸν καταράκτην, but order of words perhaps reversed in ᵐ5 ); הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶת Jer 20:3 בֵּית הַמַּהְפֶּכֶת assigned also to Asa's time 2Chr 16:10 ( ᵐ5 εἰς φυλακήν; ᵐ5 ^L εἰς οἶκον φυλακῆς; compare Acts 16:24, where εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, + εἰς τὸ ξύλον).

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מהפכת (mah-p)

2 Chronicles 16:10

KJV: Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.oppressed: Heb. crushed

EHCC: put him in ם prison house;

Jeremiah 20:2

KJV: Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.

EHCC: pat him in fhe stocks

Jeremiah 29:26

KJV: The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

EHCC: that thou shouldest put him in pro

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