Definition

a mortar; by analogy, a socket (of a tooth)

Etymology

from H3806 (כָּתַשׁ);

Word family

• כָּתַשׁ kâthash

How the KJV renders it

• hollow place
• mortar

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.