| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. 2. (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue. 3. (v. t.) To cut close, as in a bargain; to cheat. |  | Multi-Version Concordance Chisel (5 Occurrences) Exodus 32:4 And he took them out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt! (DBY) Exodus 34:1 Yahweh said to Moses, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. (WEB NIV) 1 Kings 6:7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. (See NIV) Isaiah 44:12 The iron-smith hath a chisel, and he worketh in the coals, and he fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm; but he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he hath not drunk water, and he is faint. (DBY) Jeremiah 10:3 For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for it is a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan; (DBY NIV) |