Strong's Hebrew · H4718
מַקֶּבֶת
maqqebeth · mak-keh'-beth
Definitionproperly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry
Derivationfrom H5344 (נָקַב);
KJV usagehammer, hole.
Occurrences3 in the KJV · 3 verses
מַקֶּבֶת in Scripture
Judges 4:21
Then Jael Heber' s wife took a nail of the tent, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
1 Kings 6:7
And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Isaiah 51:1
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.