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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Masons
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Ezra 3:7
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
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חָצַב
châtsab · khaw-tsab'
3 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
to cut or carve (wood, stone or other material); by implication, to hew, split, square, quarry, engrave
Strong's KJV usage: cut, dig, divide, grave, hew (out, -er), made, mason.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 22:2Strong's last: Ezra 3:7
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gâdar · gaw-dar'
2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
to wall in or around
Strong's KJV usage: close up, fence up, hedge, inclose, make up (a wall), mason, repairer.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 12:12Strong's last: 2 Kings 22:6
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qîyr · keer
2 times translated as this KJV form74 total Strong's occurrences
a wall (as built in a trench)
Strong's KJV usage: mason, side, town, × very, wall.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 5:11Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 14:1
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H2672
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.
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mason
MA'SON, noun ma'sn.
1. A man whose occupation is to lay bricks and stones, or to construct the walls of buildings, chimneys and the like, which consist of bricks or stones.
2. A member of the fraternity of free masons.
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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