Strong’s H4388 · Hebrew
מַכְתֵּשׁ
maktêsh · mak-taysh'
Origin from כָּתַשׁ (H3806);
Meaning a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)
In the King James Version hollow place, mortar.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- 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 Enhakkore, 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.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.