מַכְתֵּשׁ
machtesh · hollow, mortar
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4388 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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machtesh (מַכְתֵּשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hollow, mortar”.
Hollow, a cavity in the rock shaped like a mortar (the vessel in which things are pounded).
How to say it
mach·tesh
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 deep vessel, of stone or wood, where grain is pounded.
- A hollow in the rock shaped like a mortar, at Lehi, from which water flowed.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hollow ×1
- mortar ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Judges 15:19
And Elohim split open the hollow that is in Lehi, and water came out of it, and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore he called its name En-hakkore, which is in Lehi to this day.
- Proverbs 27:22
If you pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his folly will not depart from him.