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Strong H47182 sensesמַקֶּ֫בֶת

hammer · hole

Transliteration
maqqebeth
Pronunciation
mak-keh'-beth

The 2 senses of Strong H4718

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4718 appears in 2 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. hammerH4718Ahammer, perforator1 verse · Judges
  2. holeמַקֶּבֶתH4718Bhole, excavation, perforation1 verse · Isaiah

General definition

From H5344; properly a {perforator} that {is} a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a {perforation} that {is} a quarry: - {hammer} hole.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • hammer1
  • hole1

First verses

  1. Judges 4:21
    Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
  2. Isaiah 51:1
    Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.