Locksmith
מַסְגֵּרStrong’s H4525masger (mas-ger)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Masger is the Hebrew word usually translated “smith”, “from prison” and “prison”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.”
Meaning
- A shutting up, locksmith, smith, dungeon, enclosure, builder of bulwarkslocksmith, smith · dungeon
How it's translated
- and the smith 2
- from prison 2
- and smith 1
- a prison 1
- the smith 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Psalms 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 24:16And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
- Psalms 142:7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
- Isaiah 24:22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
- Isaiah 42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
- Jeremiah 24:1The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple of the LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 29:2(After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths, were departed from Jerusalem;)
Hebrew dictionary
מַסְגֵּר masger · locksmith
1) a shutting up, locksmith, smith, dungeon, enclosure, builder of bulwarks 1a) locksmith, smith 1b) dungeon
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “locksmith” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOCK'SMITH, noun
An artificer whose occupation is to make locks.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.