מַכְבֵּר

makh.bar

cloth

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Strong’s H4346Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

2 Kings1

Translated as

coverlet1

In the text

2 Kings 8:15הַמַּכְבֵּר
But the next day Hazael took a thick cloth, dipped it in water, and spread it over the king’s face. So Ben-hadad died, and Hazael reigned in his place.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַכְבֵּר n.[m.] a netted cloth or coverlet; 2 K 8:15 of the cloth which Hazael dipped in water, and spread over Ben-hadad’s face to smother him.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.