Strong's Lexicon

H4717

H4717 — מַקָּבָה

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

Hebrewmaqqabahnoun femOccurrences: 3TWOT: 1409c

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H4717
Word:	מַקָּבָה
Part of Speech:	noun fem
Etymology:	from H5344
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	3
Transliteration:	maqqabah
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	mak-kaw-baw'
Meaning:	1. (properly) a perforatrix, i.e. a hammer (as piercing)
KJV Renderings:	hammer.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB5354

I. מַקֶּ֑בֶת noun feminine hammer (by means of which one drives in nails and pegs); — absolute ׳ מ Judg 4:21 (+ יָתֵד); elsewhere plural מַקָּבוֺת 1Kgs 6:7 (+ גַּרְזֶן); Isa 44:12; Jer 10:4 (+ מַסְמְרוֺת). — On name Maccabee see Schü^{Geschichte. i. 158}.

Other Resources

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

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

מקבה (mak-kah-vah’)

1 Kings 6:7

KJV: And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

EHCC: neither hammer nor ax (nor any tool

Isaiah 44:12

KJV: The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.with the tongs: or, with an axe

EHCC: and fashioneth it with ) md

Jeremiah 10:4

KJV: They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

EHCC: they fasten it with nails axd with hammers,