מַקָּבָה
makava · hammer
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4717 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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makava (מַקָּבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hammer”.
A tool for striking and dressing stone or driving nails.
How to say it
ma·ka·va
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- A heavy tool for striking: it drives nails and shapes metal.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hammers ×2
- hammer ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 6:7
And the house, when it was built, was built of whole stone from the quarry; and hammer or axe, any tool of iron, was not heard in the house while it was being built.
- Isaiah 44:12
The craftsman of iron with a tool works it over the coals, and with hammers he shapes it, and works it with his strong arm; also he is hungry, and there is no strength; he does not drink water, and he grows tired.
- Jeremiah 10:4
With silver and with gold they adorn it; with nails and with hammers they fasten them, and it will not totter.