Dict: easton - Carpenter

easton:

Carpenter @ an artificer in stone, iron, and copper, as well as in wood ( kjv@2Samuel:5:11; kjv@1Chronicles:14:1; kjv@Mark:6:3). The tools used by carpenters are mentioned in kjv@1Samuel:13:19-20; kjv@Judges:4:21; kjv@Isaiah:10:15 kjv@Isaiah:44:13. It was said of our Lord, "Is not this the carpenter's son?" kjv@Matthew:13:55); also, "Is not this the carpenter?" kjv@Mark:6:3). Every Jew, even the rabbis, learned some handicraft: Paul was a tentmaker. "In the cities the carpenters would be Greeks, and skilled workmen; the carpenter of a provincial village could only have held a very humble position, and secured a very moderate competence."