International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
FORGE; FORGERforj, for'-jer (Taphal):
"Forgers of lies" occurs in Job's reply to his comforters (13:4; compare 14:17); the word is the translation of Taphal, "to patch," "lay on," "besmear," hence, to impute, overcharge, etc.; in Psalm 119:69, "forged" occurs with a similar meaning: "The proud have forged a lie against me" (compare Sirach 51:2). "Forger," in the sense of "one who forges, makes, anything," is the Revised Version (British and American) rendering of laTas "to smite," or "hammer," in Genesis 4:22 King James Version: "Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron," the Revised Version (British and American) "the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron," margin "an instructor of every artificer of copper and iron."
W. L. Walker
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., where iron is heated and wrought; a smithy.
2. (n.) The works where wrought iron is produced directly from the ore, or where iron is rendered malleable by puddling and shingling; a shingling mill.
3. (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metallic bodies.
4. (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal.
5. (n.) To form or shape out in any way; to produce; to frame; to invent.
6. (n.) To coin.
7. (n.) To make falsely; to produce, as that which is untrue or not genuine; to fabricate; to counterfeit, as, a signature, or a signed document.
8. (v. t.) To commit forgery.
9. (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead.
10. (v. t.) To impel forward slowly; as, to forge a ship forward.
Strong's Hebrew
6360. pattish -- a forge hammer... << 6359, 6360. pattish. 6361 >>. a
forge hammer. Transliteration: pattish Phonetic
Spelling: (pat-teesh') Short Definition: hammer. Word
... /hebrew/6360.htm - 5k 4647. mappuach -- a bellows
... bellows. From naphach; the bellows (ie Blower) of a forge -- bellows. see HEBREW
naphach. << 4646, 4647. mappuach. 4648 >>. Strong's Numbers.
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2950. taphal -- to smear, plaster over, stick, glue
... forger, sew up. A primitive root; properly, to stick on as a patch; figuratively,
to impute falsely -- forge(-r), sew up. << 2949, 2950. taphal. 2951 >>. ...
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