Places of the Bible
Mortar
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Mortar, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
- Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Mortar, a place in or near Jerusalem inhabited by silver merchants (Zeph. 1:11). It has been conjectured that it was the “Phoenician quarter” of the city, where the traders of that nation resided, after the Oriental custom.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 1 verse
- Zephaniah
- 1:11
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.