# מַקֶּבֶת (maqevet)

Israeli respelling: ma-qe-vet. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4718. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a perforator, i.e. a hammer (as piercing); also (intransitively) a perforation, i.e. a quarry

King James renderings: hammer, hole.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/maqevet-h4718

## Occurrences

- [Judges 4:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/21) — Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his templ…
- [Isaiah 51:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/1) — Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit…