Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4388 - מַכְתֵּשׁ maktesh

Original Word:	מַכְתֵּשׁ
Transliteration:	maktesh
Phonetic Spelling:	(mak-taysh')
Definition:	mortar
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

hollow place, mortar

From kathash; a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth) -- hollow place, mortar.

see HEBREW kathash

Englishman's Concordance

1) mortar
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3806
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1061a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

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

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4388. מַכְתֵּשׁ (maktesh) — 2 Occurrences

Judges 15:19
HEB:אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֶת־ הַמַּכְתֵּ֣שׁ אֲשֶׁר־ בַּלֶּ֗חִי
NAS: split the hollow place that is in Lehi
KJV: clave an hollow place that [was] in the jaw,
INT: split God the hollow which the jaw

Proverbs 27:22
HEB:אֶת־ הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ בְּת֣וֹךְ הָ֭רִיפוֹת
NAS: a fool in a mortar with a pestle
KJV: a fool in a mortar among
INT: pound A fool A mortar along crushed

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