Lexical Summary mahpeketh: stocks (instrument of punishment) Original Word: מַהְפֶּכֶתTransliteration: mahpeketh Phonetic Spelling: (mah-peh'-keth) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: stocks (instrument of punishment) Meaning: stocks (instrument of punishment) Strong's Concordance prison, stocks From haphak; a wrench, i.e. The stocks -- prison, stocks. see HEBREW haphak Brown-Driver-Briggs H4115. mahpeketh מַהְמֶּ֫כֶת noun feminine stocks or similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture, or distorting), mentioned rather late; as punishment for Jeremiah ׳הַמּ בִּנְיָמִן בְּשֹׁעַר אֲשֶׁר Jeremiah 20:2 (ᵐ5 εἱς τὸν καταράκτην κ.τ.λ.), compare ׳אֶלהַֿמּ 29:26 (ᵐ5 εἰς τὸ ἀπόκλεισμα; "" ᵐ5 אֶלהַֿצִּינֹק, εἰς τὸν καταράκτην, but order of words perhaps reversed in ᵐ5); הַמַּהְמָּ֑כֶת 20:3; הַמַּהְמֶּכֶת בֵּית assigned also to Asa's time 2 Chronicles 16:10 (ᵐ5 εἰς φυλακήν; ᵐ5L εἰς οἶκον φυλακῆς; compare Acts 16:24, where εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, + εἰς τὸ ξύλον). |
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