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Founder

3Greek/Hebrew entries

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Greek G2939 ktístēs

Original: κτίστης

Meaning:
from κτίζω; a founder, i.e. God (as author of all things):--Creator.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: a founder, i.e. God (as author of all things):--Creator.

Greek G5079 technítēs

Original: τεχνίτης

Meaning:
from τέχνη; an artisan; figuratively, a founder (Creator):--builder, craftsman.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: figuratively, a founder (Creator):--builder, craftsman.

Hebrew H6884 tsâraph

Original: צָרַף

Meaning:
a primitive root; to fuse (metal), i.e. refine (literally or figuratively); cast, (re-) fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: cast, (re-) fine(-er), founder, goldsmith, melt, pure, purge away, try.

Verses containing this word showing 5 of 5

^{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. Open

^{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. Open

^{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. Open

^{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. Open

^{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. Open

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