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Mortar

(Heb. homer), cement of lime and sand (Gen. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H4085, H4389, H4388, H4423
Hebrew
מְדֹכָה · mᵉdôkâh

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Mortar

(Heb. homer), cement of lime and sand (Gen. 11:3; Ex. 1:14); also potter's clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14). Also Heb. aphar, usually rendered "dust," clay or mud used for cement in building (Lev. 14:42, 45). Mortar for pulverizing (Prov. 27:22) grain or other substances by means of a pestle instead of a mill. Mortars were used in the wilderness for pounding the manna (Num. 11:8). It is commonly used in Palestine at the present day to pound wheat, from which the Arabs make a favourite dish called kibby.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Mortar

Indexed occurrences: 7

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All Scripture references10 references

Genesis 1

Genesis 11:3

Exodus 1

Exodus 1:14

Leviticus 1

Leviticus 14:42

Numbers 1

Numbers 11:8

Judges 1

Judges 15:19

Proverbs 1

Proverbs 27:22

Isaiah 1

Isaiah 41:25

Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah 43:9

Nahum 1

Nahum 3:14

Zephaniah 1

Zephaniah 1:11

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MORTAR

Nave’s Topical Bible references for MORTAR.

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Dictionary

Beaten oil

(Ex. 27:20; 29:40), obtained by pounding olives in a mortar, not by crushing them in a mill. It was reckoned the best. (See [55]OLIVE.)

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Maktesh

Mortar, a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zeph. 1:11). It has been conjectured that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city, where the traders of that nation resided, after the Oriental custom.

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Mortar

(Heb. homer), cement of lime and sand (Gen. 11:3; Ex. 1:14); also potter's clay (Isa. 41:25; Nah. 3:14). Also Heb. aphar, usually rendered "dust," clay or mud used for cement in building (Lev. 14:42, 45). Mortar for pulverizing (Prov. 27:22) grain or other substances by means of a pestle instead of a mill. Mortars were used in the wilderness for pounding the manna (Num. 11:8). It is commonly used in Palestine at the present day to pound wheat, from which the Arabs make a favourite dish called kibby.

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