מַקֶּ֫בֶת
maq.qe.vet
“hammer”
Definition
properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry
from H5344 (נָקַב);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מַקֶּ֫בֶת appears 2 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“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.
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.
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