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title: מַכְתֵּשׁ — mortar · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַכְתֵּשׁ (4389), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: mortar. BDB 1906: n.m. mortar. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַכְתֵּשׁ

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«מַכְתֵּשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **mortar** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4389 · **BDB:** מַכְתֵּשׁ

### Glosses

the.Mortar (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

mortar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4389/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. mortar [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4389/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. mortar (place of pounding, braying; cf. Palm. n.pr.m. מכתש = contundens Vog No. 97)—abs. מ׳ Pr 27:22 (v. foregoing); hollow resembling a mortar Ju 15:19 (whence came forth a water-spring; cf. GFM), Zp 1:11 = a part of Jerusalem, cf. Schwally ZAW x. (1890), 173 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַכְתֵּשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4389/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Zephaniah 1:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEP.1.11/)

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הֵילִ֖ילוּ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הַמַּכְתֵּ֑שׁ כִּ֤י נִדְמָה֙ כָּל־עַ֣ם כְּנַ֔עַן נִכְרְת֖וּ כָּל־נְטִ֥ילֵי כָֽסֶף׃

*Word for word:* wail O.inhabitants of the.Mortar (dm) it.will.be.destroyed all the.people of.Canaan they.will.be.cut.off all \[the\].weighers of.silver

*JPS 1917:* Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are undone; all they that were laden with silver are cut off.

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