מְדֹכָה
medocha · mortar
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4085 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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medocha (מְדֹכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mortar”.
A vessel for crushing.
How to say it
me·do·cha
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 bowl where grain is pounded fine.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Where it appears
- Numbers 11:8
The people would go about and gather it, and grind it in mills or beat it in a mortar, and boil it in pots, and make it into cakes; and its taste was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.