Craft

Craft - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CRAFT, n.

1. Art; ability; dexterity; skill.

Poesy is the poets skill or craft of making--

2. Cunning, art or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit.

The chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. Mark 14.

3. Art; skill; dexterity in a particular manual occupation; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; trade.

Ye know that by this craft we have our wealth. Acts 19.

4. All sorts of vessels employed in loading or unloading ships, as lighters, hoys, barges, scows, _c.

Small craft is a term given to small vessels of all hinds, as sloops, schooners, cutters, _c.

CRAFT, v.i. To play tricks. [Not in use.]

Craftiness - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CRAFTINESS, n. Artfulness; dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. Job 5.

Not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully. 2 Cor 4.

Crafty - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

CRAFTY, a.

1. Cunning; artful; skillful in devising and pursuing a scheme, by deceiving others, or by taking advantage of their ignorance; wily; sly; fraudulent.

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty. Job 5.

2. Artful; cunning; in a good sense, or in a laudable pursuit.

Being crafty, I caught you with guile. 2 Cor 12.

kraft, kraf'-ti-nes, kraf'-ti, (panourgia), (panourgos): The original meaning is that of "ability to do anything," universally applied in a bad sense to unscrupulous wickedness, that stops short of no measure, however reprehensible, in order to attain its purposes; then, in a modified form, to resourcefulness in wrong, cunning (Da 8:25; 2 Macc 12:24; the Revised Version, margin "jugglery"). In Lu 20:23, Jesus perceives "the craftiness" of His adversaries, i.e. the complicated network which they have laid to ensnare Him. The art with which a plot is concealed, and its direction to the ruin of others, are elements that enter into the meaning. Heinrici on 1Co 3:19 illustrates from Plato the distinction between craftiness and wisdom. There is a touch of humor in 2Co 12:16, when Paul speaks of his conduct toward the Corinthians as having been "crafty."

H. E. Jacobs