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MAKTESH.—The name of a locality mentioned only in Zep_1:11 as ‘the Phœnician quarter’ (?) of Jerusalem. The word denotes a mortar, and presumably was given to the place because it was basin-shaped. If so, a part of the Tyropœon valley has as good a claim as any other locality to be regarded as what is referred to. Certainly the Mt. of Olives is but a precarious conjecture.
W. F. Cobb.