מַקֶּבֶת maqqebeth
Meaning
properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry
In the King James Version: hammer, hole.
Derivation: from H5344 (נָקַב);
Where it is used
- Judges 4:21 But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
- Isaiah 51:1 “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.