Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4115
מַהְפֶּכֶת
mahpekethmah-peh'-keth
stocks
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4115is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4115
a wrench, i.e. the stocks
The King James renders it: prison, stocks.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mahpeketh is rendered "stocks". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Chronicles 16:10Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
2 Chronicles 16:10הַמַּהְפֶּ֔כֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the stock4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַהְפֵּכָה | mahpekah | overthrow | Uses6 |
| מַהְלֵךְ | mahlek | path | Usesnot recorded |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַמַּהְפֶּ֔כֶת1
- הַמַּהְפֶּ֗כֶת1
- הַמַּהְפֶּ֖כֶת1
- הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶת1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular4HTd/Ncfsa
2 Chronicles
one use
Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- הַמַּהְפֶּ֔כֶתhamahpekhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stock
Jeremiah
three uses
he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- הַמַּהְפֶּ֗כֶתhamahpekhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stock
The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
- הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶתhamahpakhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stock
‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
- הַמַּהְפֶּ֖כֶתhamahpekhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the stock
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.