Engrave

Holman Bible Dictionary

Isaiah 8:1Zechariah 3:9Job 19:24Jeremiah 17:1Genesis 38:18Esther 3:12Jeremiah 22:24Exodus 28:1128:2128:36Exodus 39:639:14Exodus 31:5Exodus 35:331 Kings 6:352 Chronicles 2:7Exodus 20:4

King James Dictionary

ENGRA'VE, pret. engraved pp. engraved or engraven.

Literally, to scratch or scrape. Hence,

1. To cut, as metals, stones or other hard substances, with a chisel or graver to cut figures, letters or devices, on stone or metal to mark by incision.

Thou shalt engrave the two stones with the

names of the children of Israel. Exodus 28

2. To picture or represent by incisions. 3. To imprint to impress deeply to infix.

Let the laws of God and the principles of morality be engraved on the minds in early years.

4. To bury to deposit in the grave to inter to inhume. Not now used.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἐντυπόω (Strong'S #1795 — Verb — entupoo — en-too-po'-o )

"to imprint, engrave" (en, "in," tupos, "a mark, impression, form, type"), is used of the "engraving" of the Law on the two stones, or tablets, 2 Corinthians 3:7 . In the Sept., Exodus 36:39 (some texts have ektupoo). See also Graven.

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To deposit in the grave; to bury.

(2):

(v. t.) To cut in; to make by incision.

(3):

(v. t.) To form or represent by means of incisions upon wood, stone, metal, or the like; as, to engrave an inscription.

(4):

(v. t.) To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions.

(5):

(v. t.) To impress deeply; to infix, as if with a graver.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(פָּתִח, pathach', to open, hence [in Piel] to carve or grave, whether on wood, gems, or stone; thrice חָרָשׁ, charash', Exodus 28:11; Exodus 35:35; Exodus 38:23, elsewhere artificer in general; έντυπόω, 2 Corinthians 3:7). The latter term, חָרָשׁ, so translated in the A.V., applies broadly to any artficer, whether in wood, stone, or metal: to restrict it to the engraver in Exodus 35:35; Exodus 38:23, is improper: a similar latitude must be given to the other term פַּתֵּחִ, which expresses the operation of the artificer; in Zechariah 3:9, ordinary stone-cutting is evidently intended. The specific description of an engraver was חָרִשׁ אֶבֶן (Exodus 28:11), lit. a stone- graver, and his chief business was cutting names or devices on rings and seals; the only notices of engraving are in connection with the high-priest's dress, — the two onyx-stones, the twelve jewels, and the mitre-plate having inscriptions on them (Exodus 28:11; Exodus 28:21; Exodus 28:36). The previous notices of signets (Genesis 38:18; Genesis 41:42) imply engraving. The art was widely spread throfighout the nations of antiquity (For. Quar. Rev. 26:32, 27:40), particularly among the Egyptians (Diod. 1:78; Wilkinson, 3:373), the Ethiopians (Her. 7:69), and the Indians (Von Bohlen, Indien, 2:122). (See Graving).