Skip to content
Holy Bible
EN
Support the project

← Bible Dictionary

Maktesh

Easton, 1897

Mortar, a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zephaniah 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.

Dictionary: M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain).