מַקֶּבֶת
makevet · hammer
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4718 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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makevet (מַקֶּבֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hammer”.
A tool for striking and driving in.
How to say it
ma·ke·vet
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, a mallet or hammer, for striking and driving in.
- The hollow left in the rock when stones are cut out of it: a quarry.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hammer ×1
- hollow ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 4:21
But Jael the wife of Heber took the peg of the tent and put the hammer in her hand, and she came to him quietly and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; he was fast asleep and exhausted, and he died.
- Isaiah 51:1
“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek YHWH: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the hollow of the quarry from which you were dug.