Strong’s Hebrew
H4388 — maktesh
The entry below is Strong’s own definition (1890, public domain), and every verse where the word occurs.
מַכְתֵּשׁ
maktesh — pronounced mak-taysh
from 3806; a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth):--hollow place, mortar. see H03806
2 occurrences in the KJV.
Judges 15:19
But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.
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.