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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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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 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

No Bezaleel arises, to build new tabernacles, unless he has been taught by Daedalus.

From Val d'Arno by Ruskin, John

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 Miller, Elizabeth

Then God instructed Moses as to who could do the work He had commanded to be done, and named two to whom He had given special wisdom and skill: these two were Bezaleel and Aholiab.

From Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children by Anonymous

John wished it would rain books, for he wished to be a preacher; Bezaleel, wool, to be a clothier like his father; Samuel, money, to be a merchant; and Edmund plums, to be a grocer.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

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