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# goldsmith

noun (a goldsmith, goldsmiths)

«goldsmith» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person who makes jewellery, cups, plates or other objects out of gold. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#m1)
2. In history, goldsmiths also kept people's gold safe and lent money, which helped start the first banks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#m2)

### In the 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

- The goldsmith made a ring for the king. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x1)
- A goldsmith melts gold and hammers it into shape. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x2)
- In medieval London goldsmiths had shops on Cheapside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x3)
- The museum showed cups made by a famous goldsmith. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x4)
- Goldsmiths in the 1600s kept merchants' gold in strong rooms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x5)
- My cousin is training to be a goldsmith. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x6)
- The goldsmith fled for his life. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/#x7)

### Note

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

## In 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.

### Examples

- Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. (Writings NEH.3.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goldsmith/#x1)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goldsmith/#x2)
- 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goldsmith/#x3)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «goldsmith» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/goldsmith/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «goldsmith» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/G/goldsmith/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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