Masons
Bible Usage:
- masons used 7 times.
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 5:11
- Last Reference: Ezra 3:7
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
An artificer in stone. The Tyrians seem to have been specially skilled in architecture (1 Kings 5:17, 18; 2 Samuel 5:11). This art the Hebrews no doubt learned in Egypt (Exodus 1:11, 14), where ruins of temples and palaces fill the traveller with wonder at the present day.
A trade in the time of David
2 Samuel 5:11
A trade of later times
2 Kings 12:12; 2 Kings 22:6; 1 Chronicles 14:1; Ezra 3:7
MA'SON, noun ma'sn.
1. A man whose occupation is to lay bricks and stones, or to construct the walls of buildings, chimneys and the like, which consist of bricks or stones.
2. A member of the fraternity of free masons.
MASON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the craft or mysteries of free masons.
MA'SONRY, noun
1. The art or occupation of a mason.
2. The work or performance of a mason; as when we say, the wall is good masonry
3. The craft of free masons.