Word Study · Strong's H4718 · Hebrew

מַקֶּבֶת

maqqebeth

mak-keh'-beth

“properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing)”

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

hammer, hole.

2
occurrencesin the Old Testament
2 of 39
Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
2
inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 2 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 2

הַמַּקֶּ֣בֶת1
מַקֶּ֥בֶת1

How it is rendered · 2

[the] excavation of1
the hammer1

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 2

noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1

Show the grammar codes as tagged

HNcfsc · 1
HTd/Ncfsa · 1

All 2, in canonical order

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Where this word lives

Judges1 of 2 · 50%
Isaiah1 of 2 · 50%

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Judges1 occurrence

Judges 4:21הַמַּקֶּ֣בֶתhamakevetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singularBut 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.here: the hammer

Isaiah1 occurrence

Isaiah 51:1מַקֶּ֥בֶתmakevetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)“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.here: [the] excavation of

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