H4388 מַכְתֵּשׁ
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 2 KJV occurrences
מַכְתֵּשׁ
maktêsh · mak-taysh'
Definition
a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)
KJV Renderings
hollow place, mortar.
Derivation / Etymology
from H3806 (כָּתַשׁ);
KJV Verses (2)
- Judges 15:19But 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 27:22Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.