Maktesh
MAKTESH
Zep 1:11, apparently in or near Jerusalem, and occupied by merchants; but we have no clue to its location.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Maktesh
(Heb. Maktesh’, [but with the art.], a mortar, as in Pro 27:12, or the sockets of a tooth, as in Jdg 15:19; Sept. renders , Vulg. Pila), a place in or near Jerusalem, mentioned as inhabited. apparently by silver-merchants (Zep 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.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Maktesh
(“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): Zep 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. Isa 22:1, “the valley of vision”; Jer 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” (Pro 27:22). So Jerusalem is compared to a pot in Eze 24:3,6: “set on a pot … woe to the bloody city, to the loot whose scum is therein.”
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Maktesh
MAKTESH.The name of a locality mentioned only in Zep 1:11 as the Phnician 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 Tyropon 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.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Maktesh
[Mak’tesh]
District in or near Jerusalem where merchants traded. Zep 1:11. The Targum associates it with the Kedron valley.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Maktesh
H4389
A district where merchants traded.
Zep 1:11
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Maktesh
Mak’tesh. (a mortar or deep hollow). A place, evidently in Jerusalem, the inhabitants of which are denounced by Zephaniah. Zep 1:11. Ewald conjectures that it was the “Phoenician quarter” of the city.