Definition

a fabricator or any material

Etymology

from H2790 (חָרַשׁ);

Where the KJV renders it

• artificer
• ( ) carpenter
• craftsman
• engraver
• maker
• mason
• skilful
• ( ) smith
• worker
• workman
• such as wrought

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.