Goldsmith
צֹרְפִיStrong’s H6885tsorephi (tso-re-phi)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Tsorephi is the Hebrew word usually translated “goldsmith”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.”
Meaning
- Goldsmiths
How it's translated
- the goldsmith 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Nehemiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
צֹרְפִי tsorephi · goldsmith
goldsmiths
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “goldsmith” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GOLDSMITH, noun
An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments of gold and silver.
- A banker; one who manages the pecuniary concerns of others. [Goldsmiths were formerly bankers in England, but in America the practice does not exist, nor is the word used in this sense.]
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.