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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

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(Judg. 4:21²¹Then 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 temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. (Judges 4:21); Isa. 44:12¹²The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint. (Isaiah 44:12)). Mighty force (Jer. 23:29; 50:23²⁹Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? (Jeremiah 23:29)
²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jeremiah 50:23)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

4717 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

maqqabah

Phonic:

mak-kaw-baw’

Meaning:

from 5344; properly, a perforatrix, i.e. a hammer (as piercing)

KJV Usage:

hammer