Strong H4388מַכְתֵּשׁ
hollow
- Transliteration
- maktêsh
- Pronunciation
- mak-taysh'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H3806; a mortar; by analogy a socket (of a tooth): - hollow {place} mortar.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: hollow
Exact lexical definition: mortar
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: מַכְתֵּשׁ n.m . mortar (place of pounding, braying)
In the Bible
Strong H4388 appears in 2 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- mortar1
- place1
First verses
- Judges 15:19But 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.
- Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.