The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
The 1611 reading
The workeman melteth a grauen image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it ouer with golde, and casteth siluer chaines.
KJV dictionary & concordance
A craftsman who works and fashions gold.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Isaiah 40:19
Complete exact-word concordance
The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
The workeman melteth a grauen image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it ouer with golde, and casteth siluer chaines.
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anuill, saying; It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nayles that it should not be moued.
1611 marginal noteOr founder.
1611 marginal noteOr, the smiting.
1611 marginal noteOr, saying of the soder, it is good.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
They lauish gold out of the bagge, and weigh siluer in the balance, and hire a goldsmith, and hee maketh it a god: they fall downe, yea they worship.
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Historical English dictionary sources
An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments of gold and silver.