מַהְפֶּכֶת
mahpechet · stocks
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4115 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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mahpechet (מַהְפֶּכֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stocks”.
A wooden device that held a prisoner by the feet, hands or neck in a forced position. "The house of the stocks" is the prison.
How to say it
mah·pe·chet
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
- Wooden frame that holds a prisoner's feet.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- 2 Chronicles 16:10
Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the house of the stocks, for he was in a rage with him over this. And Asa crushed some of the people at that time.
- Jeremiah 20:2
And Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the gate of Benjamin, the upper one, which was in the house of YHWH.
- Jeremiah 20:3
And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks, and Jeremiah said to him, “Not ‘Pashhur’ has YHWH called your name, but ‘Terror on Every Side.’
- Jeremiah 29:26
‘YHWH has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, so that there may be overseers in the house of YHWH for every man who is mad and makes himself a prophet, that you may put him in the stocks and in the collar.