H4388 Hebrew

מַכְתֵּשׁ

maktêsh (mak-taysh')
a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)

KJV Translations of H4388

hollow place, mortar.

Word Origin & Derivation

from H3806 (כָּתַשׁ);

H4388 in the King James Bible

2 verses
Judges 15:19 הַמַּכְתֵּ֣שׁ

But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En-hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

Proverbs 27:22 בַּ֥מַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ

Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.