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founder

Meaning of “founder”

A worker who melts, refines, or casts metal.

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5 occurrences5 verses2 booksKJV PCE

First occurrence: Judges 17:4

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Every verse containing “founder”

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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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Judges 17:4 · retained source text

Yet hee restored the money vnto his mother, and his mother tooke two hundred shekels of siluer, and gaue them to the founder, who made thereof a grauen image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.

Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 6:29 · retained source text

The bellowes are burnt, the lead is consumed of the fire: the founder melteth in vaine: for the wicked are not plucked away.

Jeremiah 10:9
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Jeremiah 10:9 · retained source text

Siluer spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the worke of the workeman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the worke of cunning men.

Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 10:14 · retained source text

Euery man is brutish in his knowledge, euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his moulten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

1611 marginal noteOr, is more brutish, then to know.

1611 marginal noteChap.51.17, 18.

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.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 51:17 · retained source text

Euery man is brutish by his knowledge: euery founder is confounded by the grauen image: for his moulten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

1611 marginal noteOr, is more brutish then to know.

1611 marginal noteChap.10.14.

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