Hammer
מַקָּבָהStrong’s H4718maqqavah (maq-qa-vah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Maqqavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hammer” and “excavation of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.”
Meaning
- Hammer
- Hole, excavation, perforation
How it's translated
- the hammer 1
- excavation of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַקָּבָה maqqavah · hammer
hammer Another spelling of maq.qe.vet (מַקֶּ֫בֶת "hammer" H4718A)
מַקֶּבֶת maqqevet · hole
hole, excavation, perforation
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.