King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4115
Transliteration: mahpeketh
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-peh'-keth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: stocks (instrument of punishment)
Meaning: stocks (instrument of punishment)
Word Summary
mahpeketh: stocks (instrument of punishment)
Original Word: מַהְפֶּכֶתTransliteration: mahpeketh
Phonetic Spelling: (mah-peh'-keth)
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: stocks (instrument of punishment)
Meaning: stocks (instrument of punishment)
Strong's Concordance
prison, stocks From haphak; a wrench, i.e. The stocks -- prison, stocks.
see HEBREW haphak
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4115. mahpeketh
מַהְמֶּ֫כֶת noun feminine stocks or similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture, or distorting), mentioned rather late; as punishment for Jeremiah ׳הַמּ בִּנְיָמִן בְּשֹׁעַר אֲשֶׁר Jeremiah 20:2 (ᵐ5 εἱς τὸν καταράκτην κ.τ.λ.), compare ׳אֶלהַֿמּ 29:26 (ᵐ5 εἰς τὸ ἀπόκλεισμα; "" ᵐ5 אֶלהַֿצִּינֹק, εἰς τὸν καταράκτην, but order of words perhaps reversed in ᵐ5); הַמַּהְמָּ֑כֶת 20:3; הַמַּהְמֶּכֶת בֵּית assigned also to Asa's time 2 Chronicles 16:10 (ᵐ5 εἰς φυλακήν; ᵐ5L εἰς οἶκον φυλακῆς; compare Acts 16:24, where εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, + εἰς τὸ ξύλον).