A quarter of ancient JERUSALEM — the name means 'the pounding-bowl / MORTAR,' after the shape of the ground (a hollow depression), and it was the market-and-money district, most likely part of the TYROPOEON valley that ran through the city between the two hills. ⚠ Zephaniah 1:10-11 maps the coming panic onto real streets — a cry from the Fish Gate (the northern gate), a wail from the Mishneh (the 'Second Quarter,' the newer western expansion where Huldah the prophetess lived, 2 Kings 22:14), and a howl from the Maktesh, 'for all the people of Canaan are silenced' — 'Canaanite' being the ordinary Hebrew word for MERCHANT. It is the traders' and silver-weighers' quarter, singled out because the book's target is the complacent rich. The exact location is debated; it is named only here.