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The Definition of the word Maktesh

Maktesh

Mortar, a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zeph. 1:11). It has been conjectured that it was the "Phoenician quarter of the city, where the traders of that" "nation resided, after the Oriental custom."


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