Word Study · Strong's H4085 · Hebrew

מְדֹכָה

medokah

med-o-kaw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: mᵉdôkâh

“a mortar”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a mortar

Rendered in the KJV as

mortar.

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Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
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inflected formdistinct spellings

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The word itself

Inflected forms · 1

בַּמְּדֹכָ֔ה1

How it is rendered · 1

in the mortar1

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How it parses · 1

preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1

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Numbers1 occurrence

Numbers 11:8בַּמְּדֹכָ֔הbamedokhahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singularThe people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil.here: in the mortar

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