Strong's Lexicon

H4388

H4388 — מַכתֵּשׁ

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

Hebrewmakteshnoun mascOccurrences: 2TWOT: 1061a

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4388
Word:	מַכתֵּשׁ
Part of Speech:	noun masc
Etymology:	from H3806
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	2
Transliteration:	maktesh
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mak-taysh'
Meaning:	1. a mortar 2. by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)
KJV Renderings:	hollow place, mortar.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4259

מַכְתֵּשׁ noun masculine mortar (place of pounding, braying; compare Palmyrene proper name, masculine מכתש = contundens Vog^{No. 97}) — absolute ׳ מ Prov 27:22 (see foregoing); hollow resembling a mortar Judg 15:19 (whence came forth a water-spring; compare GFM), Zeph 1:11 = a part of Jerusalem, compare Schw^{ZAW x. (1890), 173 f}.

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מכתש (mach-t)

Judges 15:19

KJV: But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.En–hakkore: that is, the well of him that called or, criedthe jaw: or, Lehi, as called in this chapter

EHCC: God clave an fallow place

Proverbs 27:22

KJV: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

EHCC: Though thou bray 8 fool ina