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Mortar

מְדֹכָהStrong’s H4085

medokhah (me-do-khah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Medokhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “mortar”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.”
Numbers 11:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mortar
How it's translated
  • in mortar 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מְדֹכָה medokhah · mortar

    mortar

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “mortar” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    MOR'TAR, noun

    [Latin mortarium.]

    1. A vessel of wood or metal in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or bruised with a pestle.
    2. A short piece of ordnance, thick and wide, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc.; so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
    All definitions and other forms of “mortar”

      MOR'TAR, noun

      A mixture of lime and sand with water, used as a cement for uniting stones and bricks in walls. If the lime is slaked and the materials mixed with lime water, the cement will be much stronger.

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.