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# מַקֶּבֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4717

**hammer** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

hammer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4717/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַקֶּ֫בֶת²: n.f. hammer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4717/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hammer (by means of which one drives in nails and pegs);—abs. מ׳ Ju 4:21; (+ יָתֵד); elsewhere pl. מַקָּבוֹת 1 K 6:7 (+ גַּרְזֶן); Is 44:12 Je 10:4 (+ מַסְמְרוֹת).—On name Maccabee v. Schürer Gesch. i. 158.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hammers (3); hammer (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 10:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.4/#tree)

בְּכֶ֥סֶף וּבְזָהָ֖ב יְיַפֵּ֑הוּ בְּמַסְמְר֧וֹת וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹת יְחַזְּק֖וּם וְל֥וֹא יָפִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* with silver and with gold he beautifies.it with nails and with hammers they make.them.strong and not it.will.stagger

*JPS 1917:* They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

[1 Kings 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/#tree)

וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ אֶֽבֶן־שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּמַקָּב֤וֹת וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל־כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּבַּ֖יִת בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the house when it was.built stone perfect quarry it.was.built and hammers and (the) axe any article of.iron not it.was.heard in the house when it was.built

*JPS 1917:* For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4717/): 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).