The stone-squarers, Heb. the Gibites; the inhabitants of Gebel, a place near Zidon, named Psalms 83:7 Ezekiel 27:9, famous for artificers and architects, Joshua 13:5. These are here mentioned apart, as distinct from the rest of Hiram's builders, as the most eminent of them.
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1 Kings 5:18
18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.