Numbers 11:8
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
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Mortar
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Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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מְדֹכָה
mᵉdôkâh · med-o-kaw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a mortar
Strong's KJV usage: mortar.
Strong's first: Numbers 11:8Strong's last: Numbers 11:8
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maktêsh · mak-taysh'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)
Strong's KJV usage: hollow place, mortar.
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Strong's first: Proverbs 27:22Strong's last: Proverbs 27:22
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And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
H4388
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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mortar
MOR'TAR, noun [Latin mortarium.]
1. A vessel of wood or metal in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or bruised with a pestle.
2. A short piece of ordnance, thick and wide, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc.; so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
MOR'TAR, noun A mixture of lime and sand with water, used as a cement for uniting stones and bricks in walls. If the lime is slaked and the materials mixed with lime water, the cement will be much stronger.
Mort d'ancestor. In law, a writ of assize, by which a demandant recovers possession of an estate from which he has been ousted, on the death of his ancestor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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