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Hollow

מַכְתֵּשׁStrong’s H4388

makhtesh (makh-tesh)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Makhtesh is the Hebrew word usually translated “deep hollow” and “mortar”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.”
Judges 15:19 KJV
Meaning
  1. Mortar
How it's translated
  • the deep hollow 1
  • in mortar 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1
  • Proverbs 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַכְתֵּשׁ makhtesh · hollow

mortar

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

HOL'LOW, adjective

  1. Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; as a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere.“Hollow with boards shalt thou make it” Exodus 27:8
  2. Sunk deep in the orbit; as a hollow eye.
  3. Deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; as a hollow roar.
  4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as a hollow heart; a hollow friend.
All definitions and other forms of “hollow”

    HOL'LOW, noun

    A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as the hollow of the hand.

    1. A place excavated; as the hollow of a tree.
    2. A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing.
    3. A pit.
    4. Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal.

    HOL'LOW, verb transitive

    To make hollow as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

      HOL'LOW, verb intransitive

      To shout. [See Holla and Hollo.]

        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.