Lexicon maktesh: mortar Original Word: מַכְתֵּשׁPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: maktesh Phonetic Spelling: (mak-taysh') Short Definition: hollow NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kathashDefinitionmortar NASB Translationhollow (1), mortar (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מַכְתֵּשׁ noun masculine mortar (place of pounding, braying; compare Palmyrene proper name, masculine מכתש = contundens Vog No. 97) — absolute ׳מ Proverbs 27:22 (see foregoing); hollow resembling a mortar Judges 15:19 (whence came forth a water-spring; compare GFM), Zephaniah 1:11 #NAME? Jerusalem, compare Schw ZAW x. (1890), 173 f. Strong's hollow place, mortar From kathash; a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth) -- hollow place, mortar. see HEBREW kathash |
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