Strong's Concordance mahpeketh: stocks (instrument of punishment) Original Word: מַהְפָּ֫כֶתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: mahpeketh Phonetic Spelling: (mah-peh'-keth) Short Definition: stocks Brown-Driver-Briggs מַהְמֶּ֫כֶת noun feminine stocks or similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture, or distorting), mentioned rather late; as punishment for Jeremiah אֲשֶׁר בְּשֹׁעַר בִּנְיָמִן ׳הַמּ Jeremiah 20:2 (ᵐ5 εἱς τὸν καταράκτην κ.τ.λ.), compare ׳אֶלהַֿמּ Jeremiah 29:26 (ᵐ5 εἰς τὸ ἀπόκλεισμα; "" אֶלהַֿצִּינֹק, ᵐ5 εἰς τὸν καταράκτην, but order of words perhaps reversed in ᵐ5); הַמַּהְמָּ֑כֶת Jeremiah 20:3; בֵּית הַמַּהְמֶּכֶת 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). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance prison, stocks From haphak; a wrench, i.e. The stocks -- prison, stocks. see HEBREW haphak Forms and Transliterations הַמַּהְפֶּ֔כֶת הַמַּהְפֶּ֖כֶת הַמַּהְפֶּ֗כֶת הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶת המהפכת ham·mah·pā·ḵeṯ ham·mah·pe·ḵeṯ hammahPachet hammahpāḵeṯ hammahPechet hammahpeḵeṯLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 41154 Occurrences ham·mah·pā·ḵeṯ — 1 Occ. ham·mah·pe·ḵeṯ — 3 Occ. 2 Chronicles 16:10 HEB: וַֽיִּתְּנֵ֙הוּ֙ בֵּ֣ית הַמַּהְפֶּ֔כֶת כִּֽי־ בְזַ֥עַף KJV: and put him in a prison house; INT: and put house A prison for was enraged Jeremiah 20:2 Jeremiah 20:3 Jeremiah 29:26 |