Lexical Definition

‎מַהְפֶּכֶת‎ mahpeketh (mah-peh'-keth) stocks ^H:N-F
from ‎הָפַךְ‎

prison, stocks.

• a wrench, i.e. the stocks

1) stocks
1a) similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture or distorting)
1b) house of stocks, prison-house

See Greek: φυλακή

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎מַהְפֶּ֫כֶת‎ noun feminine stocks or similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture, or distorting), mentioned rather late; as punishment for Jeremiah ‎אֲשֶׁר בְּשֹׁעַר בִּנְיָמִן‎ ‎׳‎‎הַמּ‎ Jer 20:2 (ᵐ5 εἱς τὸν καταράκτην κ.τ.λ.), compare ‎׳‎‎אֶלהַֿמּ‎ Jer 29:26 (ᵐ5 εἰς τὸ ἀπόκλεισμα; || ‎אֶלהַֿצִּינֹק‎, ᵐ5 εἰς τὸν καταράκτην, but order of words perhaps reversed in ᵐ5); ‎הַמַּהְפָּ֑כֶת‎ Jer 20:3 ‎בֵּית הַמַּהְפֶּכֶת‎ assigned also to Asa's time 2Chr 16:10 (ᵐ5 εἰς φυλακήν; ᵐ5^L εἰς οἶκον φυλακῆς; compare Acts 16:24, where εἰς τὴν ἐσωτέραν φυλακήν, + εἰς τὸ ξύλον).

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