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# מַכְתֵּשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4389

**mortar** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mortar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4389/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַכְתֵּשׁ: n.m. mortar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4389/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mortar (place of pounding, braying; cf. Palm. n.pr.m. מכתש = contundens Vog No. 97)—abs. מ׳ Pr 27:22 (v. foregoing); hollow resembling a mortar Ju 15:19 (whence came forth a water-spring; cf. GFM), Zp 1:11 = a part of Jerusalem, cf. Schwally ZAW x. (1890), 173 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Mortar (1).

## In the verses

[Zephaniah 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.11/#tree)

הֵילִ֖ילוּ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הַמַּכְתֵּ֑שׁ כִּ֤י נִדְמָה֙ כָּל־עַ֣ם כְּנַ֔עַן נִכְרְת֖וּ כָּל־נְטִ֥ילֵי כָֽסֶף׃

*Word for word:* wail O.inhabitants of the.Mortar (dm) it.will.be.destroyed all the.people of.Canaan they.will.be.cut.off all \[the\].weighers of.silver

*JPS 1917:* Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are undone; all they that were laden with silver are cut off.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4389/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).