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Carve [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Carve [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at tale.

2. To cut wood, stone or other material into some particular form, with an instrument, usually a chisel; to engrave; to cut figures or devices on hard materials.

3. To make or shape by cutting; as, to carve an image.

4. To apportion; to distribute; to provide at pleasure; to select and take, as to ones self, or to select and give to another.

5. To cut; to hew.

6. To care out, is to cut out, or to lay out, by design; to plan.

7. To cut up meat; followed sometimes by for; as, to carve for all the quests.

8. To exercise the trade of a sculptor.

9. To engrave or cut figures.

Carve [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A carucate.

Carve [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

Carve [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cut.

2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.

4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.

5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Carved [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The urtica marina, or sea blubber.

Carved [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Cut or divided; engraved; formed by carving.

Carved [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Carve

Carvel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small vessel on the coast of France, used in the herring fishery. These vessels are usually from 25 to 30 tons burden.

2. A light, round, old-fashioned ship.

Carvel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Same as Caravel.

2. A species of jellyfish; sea blubber.

Carvelbuilt [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the planks meet flush at the seams, instead of lapping as in a clinker-built vessel.

Carven [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved.

Carvene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An oily substance, C10H16, extracted from oil caraway.

Carver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who cuts meat at tale; a sculptor; one who apportions or distributes at will, or one who takes or gives at pleasure.

2. A large table knife for carving.

Carver [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.

2. One who carves or divides meat at table.

3. A large knife for carving.

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Exodus 31:5

And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every craft.

Exodus 35:33

And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.

Leviticus 26:1

Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 33:52

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 27:15

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Judges 18:18

And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

1 Kings 6:18

And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

1 Kings 6:29

And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

1 Kings 6:32

The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.

The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

1 Kings 6:35

And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.

2 Kings 21:7

And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

2 Chronicles 3:7

He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

2 Chronicles 33:7

And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

2 Chronicles 33:22

But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

2 Chronicles 34:4

And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

Psalms 74:6

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

Psalms 144:12

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

Proverbs 7:16

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.