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== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36679" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36679" /> == | ||
<p> ("the mortar") ( | <p> ("the mortar") ''(The [[Article]] Is In The Hebrew, Showing It Is Not A [[Proper]] Name)'' . The hollow in [[Jerusalem]] where the merchants carried on traffic. The deep valley between the temple and upper city, crowded with merchant bazaars (Grove): Zephaniah 1:11. [[Jerome]] makes it the valley of Siloam; "howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down." The Tyropeon valley below Mount [[Acra]] (Rosenmuller). [[Better]] (Maurer) Jerusalem itself, embosomed amidst hills. Isaiah 22:1, "the valley of vision"; Jeremiah 22:1, "O inhabitress of the valley and rock of the plain," doomed to be the scene of its people being as it were pounded in "the mortar" ( Proverbs 27:22). So Jerusalem is compared to a pot in Ezekiel 24:3,6: "set on a pot ... woe to the bloody city, to the loot whose scum is therein." </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52850" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52850" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Maktesh]] </strong> The name of a locality mentioned only in Zephaniah 1:11 as ‘the PhÅ“nician quarter’ (?) of Jerusalem. The word denotes a <em> mortar </em> , and presumably was given to the place because it was basin-shaped. If so, a part of the TyropÅ“on valley has as good a claim as any other locality to be regarded as what is referred to. [[Certainly]] the Mt. of [[Olives]] is but a precarious conjecture. </p> <p> W. F. Cobb. </p> | ||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73984" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73984" /> == | ||
<p> Mak'tesh. ( | <p> '''Mak'tesh.''' ''(A Mortar'' or ''Deep Hollow).'' A place, evidently in Jerusalem, the inhabitants of which are denounced by Zephaniah. Zephaniah 1:11. Ewald conjectures that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city. </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67673" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67673" /> == | ||
<p> [[District]] in or near | <p> [[District]] in or near Jerusalem where merchants traded. Zephaniah 1:11 . The [[Targum]] associates it with the [[Kedron]] valley. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16607" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_16607" /> == | ||
<p> Zephaniah 1:11 , apparently in or near Jerusalem, and occupied by merchants; but we have no clue to its location. </p> | <p> Zephaniah 1:11 , apparently in or near Jerusalem, and occupied by merchants; but we have no clue to its location. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42175" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42175" /> == | ||
Zephaniah 1:11 | Zephaniah 1:11 | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32696" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32696" /> == | ||
Zephaniah 1:11 | Zephaniah 1:11 | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_49454" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_49454" /> == | ||
<p> (Heb. Maktesh', מִכְתֵּשׁ [but with the art.], a | <p> (Heb. Maktesh', '''''מִכְתֵּשׁ''''' [but with the art.], a ''Mortar,'' as in Proverbs 27:12, or the sockets of a tooth, as in Judges 15:19; Sept. renders '''''Κατακεκομμένη''''' , Vulg. ''Pila'' ) '','' a place in or near Jerusalem, mentioned as inhabited. apparently by silver-merchants ( Zephaniah 1:11). [[Gesenius]] regards it as the name of a valley, so called from its mortar-like shape ( ''Thesaurus,'' p. 725). The rabbins understand the Kedron and other less likely places to be meant. Ewald conjectures ( ''Propheten, P.'' 364) that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city, in which the traders of that nation-the [[Canaanites]] (A. Vers. "merchants"), who in this passage are associated with Maktesh '''''—''''' resided, after the custom in Oriental towns. Dr. Barclay (City of the Great King, p. 100,157, 173) ingeniously suggests that it may have been a quarter devoted to minting operations, and therefore situated near the goldsmith's bazaar, which was doubtless located somewhere in Acra or the lower city, but whether in the [[Tyropceon]] adjoining the Temple, where he places it, is uncertain. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Latest revision as of 13:35, 13 October 2021
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
("the mortar") (The Article Is In The Hebrew, Showing It Is Not A Proper Name) . The hollow in Jerusalem where the merchants carried on traffic. The deep valley between the temple and upper city, crowded with merchant bazaars (Grove): Zephaniah 1:11. Jerome makes it the valley of Siloam; "howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut down." The Tyropeon valley below Mount Acra (Rosenmuller). Better (Maurer) Jerusalem itself, embosomed amidst hills. Isaiah 22:1, "the valley of vision"; Jeremiah 22:1, "O inhabitress of the valley and rock of the plain," doomed to be the scene of its people being as it were pounded in "the mortar" ( Proverbs 27:22). So Jerusalem is compared to a pot in Ezekiel 24:3,6: "set on a pot ... woe to the bloody city, to the loot whose scum is therein."
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Maktesh The name of a locality mentioned only in Zephaniah 1:11 as ‘the PhÅ“nician quarter’ (?) of Jerusalem. The word denotes a mortar , and presumably was given to the place because it was basin-shaped. If so, a part of the TyropÅ“on valley has as good a claim as any other locality to be regarded as what is referred to. Certainly the Mt. of Olives is but a precarious conjecture.
W. F. Cobb.
Smith's Bible Dictionary [3]
Mak'tesh. (A Mortar or Deep Hollow). A place, evidently in Jerusalem, the inhabitants of which are denounced by Zephaniah. Zephaniah 1:11. Ewald conjectures that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city.
Morrish Bible Dictionary [4]
District in or near Jerusalem where merchants traded. Zephaniah 1:11 . The Targum associates it with the Kedron valley.
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary [5]
Zephaniah 1:11 , apparently in or near Jerusalem, and occupied by merchants; but we have no clue to its location.
Holman Bible Dictionary [6]
Zephaniah 1:11
Easton's Bible Dictionary [7]
Zephaniah 1:11
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [8]
(Heb. Maktesh', מִכְתֵּשׁ [but with the art.], a Mortar, as in Proverbs 27:12, or the sockets of a tooth, as in Judges 15:19; Sept. renders Κατακεκομμένη , Vulg. Pila ) , a place in or near Jerusalem, mentioned as inhabited. apparently by silver-merchants ( Zephaniah 1:11). Gesenius regards it as the name of a valley, so called from its mortar-like shape ( Thesaurus, p. 725). The rabbins understand the Kedron and other less likely places to be meant. Ewald conjectures ( Propheten, P. 364) that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city, in which the traders of that nation-the Canaanites (A. Vers. "merchants"), who in this passage are associated with Maktesh — resided, after the custom in Oriental towns. Dr. Barclay (City of the Great King, p. 100,157, 173) ingeniously suggests that it may have been a quarter devoted to minting operations, and therefore situated near the goldsmith's bazaar, which was doubtless located somewhere in Acra or the lower city, but whether in the Tyropceon adjoining the Temple, where he places it, is uncertain.
References
- ↑ Maktesh from Fausset's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Maktesh from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
- ↑ Maktesh from Smith's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Maktesh from Morrish Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Maktesh from American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Maktesh from Holman Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Maktesh from Easton's Bible Dictionary
- ↑ Maktesh from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
