2 Samuel 5:11
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
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Carpenters
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Zechariah 1:20
And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.
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חָרָשׁ
chârâsh · khaw-rawsh'
9 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
a fabricator or any material
Strong's KJV usage: artificer, ( ) carpenter, craftsman, engraver, maker, mason, skilful, ( ) smith, worker, workman, such as wrought.
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Strong's first: 2 Samuel 5:11Strong's last: Zechariah 1:20
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H2796
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of the LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house of the LORD,
H2796
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
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carpenter
CARPENTER, noun An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, and of ships. Those who build houses are called house-carpenters, and those who build ships are called ship-carpenters.
In New England, a distinction is often made between the man who frames, and the man who executes the interior wood-work of a house. The framer is the carpenter and the finisher is called joiner. This distinction is noticed by Johnson, and seems to be a genuine English distinction. But in some other parts of America, as in New-York, the term carpenter includes both the framer and the joiner; and in truth both branches of business are often performed by the same person. The word is never applied, as in Italy and Spain, to a coach-maker.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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