# H4388 מַכְתֵּשׁ

מַכְתֵּשׁ (maktêsh), Strong’s H4388: a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth) KJV: hollow place, mortar.. Occurs 2 times.

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*maktêsh* — a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)

KJV: hollow place, mortar.

Derived from [כָּתַשׁ kâthash](https://besorah.bible/word/H3806) (to butt or pound)

Occurs 2 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַכְתֵּשׁ n.m. mortar (place of pounding, braying)

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 15:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=19) — But God split the hollow place that is in Lehi, and water came out of it. When he had drunk, his spirit came again, and…
- [Proverbs 27:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/27?v=22) — Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.