goldsmith

«goldsmith» in Mova's judaism dictionary: A person who makes jewellery, cups, plates or other… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a goldsmith, goldsmiths)

meaning for a pupil

1) A person who makes jewellery, cups, plates or other objects out of gold. tree →

2) In history, goldsmiths also kept people's gold safe and lent money, which helped start the first banks. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A worker in gold, who might repair walls under Nehemiah or make covered idols, as Isaiah mocks. Interpretation: Isaiah's picture of the craftsman making an idol is read as a joke on idol worship: a human-made thing can have no power. In Nehemiah, every trade helping rebuild Jerusalem's wall shows the people working together. In the primary lessons: In history and art lessons goldsmiths made crowns, coins and church treasures (like the Anglo-Saxon gold of Sutton Hoo). In money lessons goldsmiths' receipts were an early form of paper money in London.

examples

• Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. (Writings NEH.3.8, JPS 1917) tree →
• And between the upper chamber of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants. (Writings NEH.3.32, JPS 1917) tree →
• The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted, and the goldsmith spread over with gold, the silversmith casting silver chains? (Prophets ISA.40.19, JPS 1917) tree →
• The goldsmith made a ring for the king. tree →
• A goldsmith melts gold and hammers it into shape. tree →
• In medieval London goldsmiths had shops on Cheapside. tree →
• The museum showed cups made by a famous goldsmith. tree →
• Goldsmiths in the 1600s kept merchants' gold in strong rooms. tree →
• My cousin is training to be a goldsmith. tree →
• The goldsmith fled for his life. tree →

note

Countable. «Smith» means a maker who works metal: blacksmith (iron), silversmith (silver), goldsmith (gold).

In the corpora

• The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted, and the goldsmith spread over with gold, the silversmith casting silver chains?
• Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths.
• And between the upper chamber of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «goldsmith» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.