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# silversmith

noun

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

## In Jewish tradition

Isaiah mentions him among the people who make idols. The prophet mocks idols as just things made by human hands.

**Interpretation.** The tradition uses this to teach that an idol is empty because a human made it and cannot make it live.

### Meaning

A craftsman who makes things out of silver. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/silversmith/#m1)

### Examples

- 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/S/silversmith/#x1)

### Note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

## On Mova

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