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Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Read in context →Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Read in context →2 occurrences in 2 verses.
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chârâsh · khaw-rawsh'
a fabricator or any material
Strong's KJV usage: artificer, ( ) carpenter, craftsman, engraver, maker, mason, skilful, ( ) smith, worker, workman, such as wrought.
Strong's first: Isaiah 40:19Strong's last: Hosea 8:6
Open full H2796 profile →ergátēs · er-gat'-ace
a toiler; figuratively, a teacher
Strong's KJV usage: :--labourer, worker(-men).
Strong's first: Matthew 10:10Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:15
Open full G2040 profile →châshab · khaw-shab'
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
Strong's KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Strong's first: Exodus 35:35Strong's last: Exodus 38:23
Open full H2803 profile →ʼâmân · aw-mawn'
an expert
Strong's KJV usage: cunning workman.
Strong's first: Song of Solomon 7:1Strong's last: Song of Solomon 7:1
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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
WORKMAN noun [work and man.]
1. Any man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures.
2. By way of eminence, a skillful artificer or laborer.
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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