H4718 - מַקֶּבֶת (maqqebeth)

H4718 מַקֶּבֶת (maqqebeth) mak-keh'-beth

Hebrew

Strong's Definition

properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry

Derivation: from H5344 (נָקַב);

KJV Usage: hammer, hole.

TWOT Reference: 1409d

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) hole, excavation, perforation

2) hammer, perforator

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G999

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַקֶּבֶת maqqebeth BDB Definition: 1) hole, excavation, perforation 2) hammer, perforator Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5344 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1409d Total KJV Occurrences: 2

Bible Occurrences (2)

4:21

51:1

Judges 4:21

But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer..., and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple [and] into the ground, and he died.

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry... from which you were hewn.