Strong’s H4718 · Hebrew
מַקֶּבֶת
maqqebeth · mak-keh'-beth
Origin from נָקַב (H5344);
Meaning properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry
In the King James Version hammer, hole.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Judges 4:21Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
- Isaiah 51:1Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
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.