# H4718 מַקֶּבֶת

מַקֶּבֶת (maqqebeth), Strong’s H4718: properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry KJV: hammer, hole.. Occurs 2 times.

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*maqqebeth* — properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry

KJV: hammer, hole.

Derived from [נָקַב nâqab](https://besorah.bible/word/H5344) (to puncture, literally)

Occurs 2 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַקֶּ֫בֶת n.f. hammer (by means of which one drives in nails and pegs)
- מַקֶּבֶת n.f
- מַקֶּבֶת n.f. hole, excavation;—only cstr. Is 51:1

## Where it occurs
- [Judges 4:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/4?v=21) — Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him, and struck the pin…
- [Isaiah 51:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/51?v=1) — “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to…