Pestle
עֱלִיStrong’s H5940eli (e-li)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Eli is the Hebrew word usually translated “pestle”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.”
Meaning
- Pestle
How it's translated
- with the pestle 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֱלִי eli · pestle
pestle
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pestle” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PESTLE, noun
pes'l. [Latin pistillum, and probably pinso, for piso, to pound or beat.] An instrument for pounding and breaking substances in a mortar.
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.