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Smith

The Hebrews were not permitted by the Philistines in the days of Samuel to have a smith amongst them, lest they should make them swords and spears (1 Sam. 13:19). This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work
  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H4525
Hebrew
מַסְגֵּר · maçgêr

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מַסְגֵּר

H4525
Transliteration
maçgêr
Pronunciation
mas-gare'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
7

Glosses

prison, smith.

Lexicon definition

a fastener, i.e. (of a person) a smith, (of a thing) a prison

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

G—

The installed lexicons do not contain a sufficiently exact Greek word-level match for this study. UNLEARN leaves this language unassigned instead of displaying an unrelated Strong’s record.

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Smith

The Hebrews were not permitted by the Philistines in the days of Samuel to have a smith amongst them, lest they should make them swords and spears (1 Sam. 13:19). Thus the Philistines sought to make their conquest permanent (comp. 2 Kings 24:16).

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897) · View data sources

Topical Bible

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