KJV dictionary & concordance
A vessel in which substances are pounded or crushed with a pestle.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Numbers 11:8
Complete exact-word concordance
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in milles, or beat it in a morter, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oyle.
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Though thou shouldest bray a foole in a morter among wheate with a pestell, yet will not his foolishnesse depart from him.
Source order
1 · Direct Scripture definition
Manna and wheat are pounded in a vessel, with Proverbs directly naming the pestle.
2 · KJV context and cross-references
Historical English dictionary sources
A vessel of wood or metal in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or bruised with a pestle.
