Strong's #4388: maktesh (pronounced mak-taysh')

from 3806; a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth):--hollow place, mortar.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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maktêsh

1) mortar

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H3806

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Judges 15:19: "But God cleaved a hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water"
Proverbs 27:22: "thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not"