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FOUNDER

foun'-der (from tsaraph): A worker in molten metal (Judges 17:4, etc.). The word in the King James Version in Jeremiah 10:9,14; 51:17 is rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) "goldsmith," and in Jeremiah 6:29 by a paraphrase, "They go on refining."

See REFINER; REFINING ; GOLDSMITH .

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.