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What is Maktesh?
        MAK'TESH
        (mortar), a place in Jerusalem denounced by Zephaniah. Zeph 1:11. Ewald conjectures that it was the "Phoenician quarter" of the city, and the Targum identifies it with the Kedron. Jerome places it in the lower city, where were bazaars of merchants at the time of the siege by Titus.


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Schaff, Philip, Dr. "Biblical Definition for 'maktesh' in Schaffs Bible Dictionary".
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