1) stocks

1a) similar instrument of punishment (compelling crooked posture or distorting)

1b) house of stocks, prison-house

Root √הפך: הָפַךְ vb turn overturn Qal turn turn about turn over . overturn overthrow , turn change transform =, trans. turn turn back , turn change change into =, intrans. Niph turn oneself turn turn back . turn change =(oneself) be perverse reflex. & intrans. be turned turn over to , be reversed be turned changed , be overturned overthrown , be upturned , of subterran. work of miners pass. . Hithp turn this way & that every way , transform oneself . Hoph there have been turned upon me terrors .

מַהְפֶּ֫כֶת n.f stocks .or similar instrum. of punishment