Lexical Summary maktesh: mortar Original Word: מַכְתֵּשׁTransliteration: maktesh Phonetic Spelling: (mak-taysh') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: mortar Meaning: a mortar, a socket Strong's Concordance hollow place, mortar From kathash; a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth) -- hollow place, mortar. see HEBREW kathash Brown-Driver-Briggs H4388. maktesh מַכְתֵּשׁ noun masculine mortar (place of pounding, braying; compare Palmyrene proper name, masculine מכתש = contundens VogNo. 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 +? Jerusalem, compare SchwZAW x. (1890), 173 f. |
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