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Craft

Holman Bible Dictionary

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Occupation or trade requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill. Several crafts were practiced in biblical times: carpentry, boatbuilding, carving (wood, ivory, ebony, and alabaster), metalworking (gold, silver, bronze, and iron), weaving and spinning, tanning, tentmaking, basket weavers, potter's trade, fuller's trade, dyeing, sculpting, jeweler's trade, glassworking, perfumery, embroidering, masonry, plastering, etc. See Occupations, Professions in the Bible.

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Butler, Trent C. Editor. Entry for 'Craft'. Holman Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hbd/​c/craft.html. 1991.
 
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