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Bezaleel

American  
[bih-zal-ee-uhl] / bɪˈzæl i əl /

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the chief architect of the tabernacle.


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But for Pope, no one in this generation would have heard of Arnall and Moore and Breval and Bezaleel Morris and fifty more ephemeral denizens of Grub Street.

From Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) by Sir Leslie Stephen

He took no public part in the people's affairs, yet who shall say that he was not near when Bezaleel wrought the wondrous angels for the ark?

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller

Memoirs of Wheelock" contain the following paragraph relating to Professor Woodward: "At the anniversary commencement of 1804, the Honorable Bezaleel Woodward, professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, departed this life.

From The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith

The young Henry Longfellow went to various schools, as those of Mrs. Fellows and Mr. Carter, and the Portland Academy, then kept by Mr. Bezaleel Cushman, a Dartmouth College graduate.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

In the ornaments of the tabernacle, the artificer Bezaleel "made two cherubims of gold beaten out of one piece made he them."

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

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