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Maktesh in the Bible

Meaning: mortar or deep hollow

This is a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zeph. 1:11). Zephaniah denounced them.

It has been conjectured that it was the “Phoenician quarter” of the city, where the traders of that nation resided, after the Eastern custom.

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• SILVER in the Bible
• MERCHANTS in the Bible
• PHOENICIA AND PHOENICIANS in the Bible
• Zephaniah
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