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title: מַקֶּבֶת — hammer · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַקֶּבֶת (4717), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: hammer. BDB 1906: n.f. hammer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַקֶּבֶת

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«מַקֶּבֶת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **hammer** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 4717 · **BDB:** מַקֶּ֫בֶת²

### Glosses

hammers (3); hammer (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

hammer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4717/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. hammer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4717/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. hammer (by means of which one drives in nails and pegs);—abs. מ׳ Ju 4:21; (+ יָתֵד); elsewhere pl. מַקָּבוֹת 1 K 6:7 (+ גַּרְזֶן); Is 44:12 Je 10:4 (+ מַסְמְרוֹת).—On name Maccabee v. Schürer Gesch. i. 158.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַקֶּבֶת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4717/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Jeremiah 10:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.10.4/)

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בְּכֶ֥סֶף וּבְזָהָ֖ב יְיַפֵּ֑הוּ בְּמַסְמְר֧וֹת וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹת יְחַזְּק֖וּם וְל֥וֹא יָפִֽיק׃

*Word for word:* with silver and with gold he beautifies.it with nails and with hammers they make.them.strong and not it.will.stagger

*JPS 1917:* They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

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[1 Kings 6:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/)

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וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ אֶֽבֶן־שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּמַקָּב֤וֹת וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל־כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּבַּ֖יִת בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the house when it was.built stone perfect quarry it.was.built and hammers and (the) axe any article of.iron not it.was.heard in the house when it was.built

*JPS 1917:* For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —

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