Judges 17:4
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
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Founder
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Jeremiah 51:17
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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צָרַף
tsâraph · tsaw-raf'
5 times translated as this KJV form33 total Strong's occurrences
to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: cast, (re-) fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.
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Strong's first: Judges 17:4Strong's last: Jeremiah 51:17
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Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
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founder
FOUND'ER, n
1. One that founds, establishes and erects; one that lays a foundation; as the founder of a temple or city.
2. One who begins; an author; one from whom any thing originates; as the founder of a sect of philosophers; the founder of a family or race.
3. One who endows; one who furnishes a permanent fund for the support of an institution; as the founder of a college or hospital.
4. A caster; one who casts metals in various forms; as a founder of cannon, belles, hardware, printing types, etc.
FOUND'ER, verb intransitive
1. In seamen's language, to fill or be filled and sink, as a ship.
2. To fail; to miscarry.
3. To trip; to fell.
FOUND'ER, verb transitive To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.
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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