Hammer
מַקָּבָהStrong’s H4717maqqavah (maq-qa-vah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maqqavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hammers”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.”
Meaning
- Hammer
How it's translated
- and with hammers 2
- and hammers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 44:12The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
- Jeremiah 10:4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
Hebrew dictionary
מַקָּבָה maqqavah · hammer
hammer Another spelling of maq.qe.vet (מַקֶּ֫בֶת "hammer" H4718A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hammer” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAM'MER, noun
An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like. It consists of an iron head, fixed crosswise to a handle. Hammers are of various sizes; a large hammer used by smiths is called a sledge.
All definitions and other forms of “hammer”
HAM'MER, verb transitive
To beat with a hammer; as, to hammer iron or steel.
- To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
- To work in the mind; to contrive by intellectual labor; usually with out; as, to hammer out a scheme.
HAM'MER, verb intransitive
To work; to be busy; to labor in contrivance.
- To be working or in agitation.
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.