Strong’s
H4388Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Judges 15:19הַמַּכְתֵּשׁ
So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
- Proverbs 27:22בַּמַּכְתֵּשׁ
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
מַכְתֵּשׁ n.m. mortar (place of pounding, braying)
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.