STRONGS NUMBER H4717


Word Summary
maqqebeth: a hammer
Original Word: מַקָּבָה
Transliteration: maqqebeth
Phonetic Spelling: (mak-kaw-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a hammer
Meaning: a perforatrix, a hammer
Strong's Concordance
hammer

From naqab; properly, a perforatrix, i.e. A hammer (as piercing) -- hammer.

see HEBREW naqab

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4717. maqqebeth

I. מַקֶּ֑בֶתnoun feminine hammer (by means of which one drives in nails and pegs); — absolute ׳מJudges 4:21 (+ יָתֵד‎); elsewhere plural מַקָּבוֺת1 Kings 6:7 (+ גַּרְזֶן‎); Isaiah 44:12; Jeremiah 10:4 (+ מַסְמְרוֺת‎). — On name Maccabee see SchüGeschichte. i. 158.