Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4718
מַקֶּבֶת
maqqebethmak-keh'-beth
hammer; hole
2 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 H4718is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4718
properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry
The King James renders it: hammer, hole.
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
maqqebeth is rendered "hammer; hole". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "hammer".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 4:21But 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.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
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.
Judges 4:21הַמַּקֶּ֣בֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: hammer, and hole.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| hammerStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereJudges 4:21But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer… |
| holeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- excavation of1
- the hammer1
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.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- הַמַּקֶּ֣בֶת1
- מַקֶּ֥בֶת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Judges
one use
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.
- הַמַּקֶּ֣בֶתhamakevetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the hammer
Isaiah
one use
“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.
- מַקֶּ֥בֶתmakevetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: excavation of
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.