Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4718: מַקֶּבֶת

maqqebeth · pronounced mak-keh'-beth · “hammer”

Definition

properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry

KJV translates it as: hammer, hole.

Word origin: from H5344 (נָקַב);

Extended definition

hammer, perforator
Also means: maq.qa.vah (מַקָּבָה "hammer" H4717)

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4718 is translated

  • hammer ×1
  • the excavation of ×1

Bible verses with H4718 (maqqebeth)

Maqqebeth appears in 2 verses.

  • Judges 4:21

    Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

  • Isaiah 51:1

    Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.