Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4717
מַקָּבָה
maqqabahmak-kaw-baw'
hammer
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maqqâbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4717is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4717
properly, a perforatrix, i.e. a hammer (as piercing)
The King James renders it: hammer.
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
maqqabah is rendered "hammer". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 6:7The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
1 Kings 6:7וּמַקָּב֤וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and hammers1
- and with hammers1
- and with the hammers1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַקָּחָה | maqqachah | ware | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹת1
- וּבַמַּקָּב֖וֹת1
- וּמַקָּב֤וֹת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine plural1HC/R/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HC/Rd/Ncfpa
1 Kings
one use
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
- וּמַקָּב֤וֹתumakavotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and hammers
Isaiah
one use
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
- וּבַמַּקָּב֖וֹתuvammakavotconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and with the hammers
Jeremiah
one use
They adorn it with silver and gold and fasten it with hammer and nails, so that it will not totter.
- וּבְמַקָּב֛וֹתuvemakavotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and with hammers
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.