Strong's #4115: mahpeketh (pronounced mah-peh'-keth)

from 2015; a wrench, i.e. the stocks:--prison, stocks.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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mahpeketh

1) stocks

1a) similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture or distorting)

1b) house of stocks, prison-house

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from H2015

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

2 Chronicles 16:10: "with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with"
Jeremiah 20:2: "the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin,"
Jeremiah 20:3: "brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto"
Jeremiah 29:26: "and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks."