King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4388
Transliteration: maktesh
Phonetic Spelling: (mak-taysh')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: mortar
Meaning: a mortar, a socket
Word 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.