At the building of King Solomon's Temple these were expert operative Masons, the name meaning stone squarers, who understood the science of geometrical proportion in its practical applications and were cemented in their lodge by the morality of its detached and component parts. — ( 1 Kings 5:18 ) — And in our common version, is as follows: "And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stone-squarers; so they prepared timber and stones to build the house," where the word translated in the authorized version by stone-squarers is, in the original, Giblim.
Biblical Reference
1 Kings 5:18
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
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