an artificer in stone, iron, and copper, as well as in wood (2-Sam 5:11; 1-Chr 14:1; Mark 6:3). The tools used by carpenters are mentioned in 1-Sam 13:19, 1-Sam 13: 20; Judg. 4:21; Isa. 10:15;44:13. It was said of our Lord, "Is not this the carpenter's son?" (Matt. 13:55); also, "Is not this the carpenter?" (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."