Topic
Mason
10 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Samuel 5:11Easton · ISBE · Nave A trade — In the time of David
¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.
- 2 Kings 12:12ISBE · Nave A trade — Of later times
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
- 1 Chronicles 14:1ISBE · Nave A trade — Of later times
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
- Ezra 3:7ISBE · Nave A trade — Of later times
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.
- Exodus 1:11Easton
Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exodus 1:14Easton
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- 1 Kings 5:17Easton
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
- 1 Kings 5:18Easton
And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
- 2 Kings 22:6Nave A trade — Of later times
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2ISBE
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 5 references
An artificer in stone. The Tyrians seem to have been specially skilled in architecture (1 Kings 5:17, 18; 2 Sam. 5:11). This art the Hebrews no doubt learned in Egypt (Ex. 1:11, 14), where ruins of temples and palaces fill the traveller with wonder at the present day.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
ma'-s'n: The translation of 4 Hebrew words:
(1) charash 'ebhen, "graver of stone" (2Sa 5:11);
(2) (3) gadhar (2Ki 12:12), charash qur (1Ch 14:1), "maker of a wall (or hedge)";
(4) chatsabh, "a hewer or digger (of stones)" (1Ch 22:2; Ezr 3:7).
Lebanon still supplies the greater number of skilled masons to Palestine and Syria (see 2Sa 5:11), those of Shweir being in special repute.
See CRAFTS, II, 8; also ARCHITECTURE; BUILDING; GEBAL; HOUSE.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.