H4388: מַכְתֵּשׁ
maktêsh · pronounced mak-taysh' · “hollow”
Definition
a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)
KJV translates it as: hollow place, mortar.
Word origin: from H3806 (כָּתַשׁ);
Extended definition
mortar
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4388 is translated
- deep hollow ×1
- mortar ×1
Bible verses with H4388 (maktêsh)
Maktêsh appears in 2 verses.
- Judges 15:19
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
- Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.