Quarry
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Noah Webster's Dictionary

1. (n.) Same as Quarrel.

2. (a.) Quadrate; square.

3. (n.) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

4. (n.) A heap of game killed.

5. (n.) The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.

6. (v. i.) To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

7. (n.) A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).

8. (v. t.) To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

Multi-Version Concordance

Quarry (5 Occurrences)

1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stone. (See 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. (WEB JPS ASV NAS RSV NIV)

2 Chronicles 2:2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. (See NAS RSV)

2 Chronicles 2:18 He set seventy thousand of them to bear burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people at work. (See NAS RSV)

Isaiah 51:1 Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken. (See NAS RSV NIV)




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