Forge, forger (Hastings' Dictionary)

Forge and fabricate come both from Lat. fahricare, the former through the Old F'rench furgier, the latter directly. To ' forge ' is therefore to make or shape, aa Ex 4", Wye. (1382), ' Who made the mouth of man, or who forgide (1388 'made') the dowmbe and the deef, the seer and the bljnde ? ' ; Tindale, ]Vor/cs (ed. RusseU, 1831), i. 93, 'The power of God . . altereth him, changeth him clean, fashioneth and forgeth him anew.'

It is espe- cially used of shaping metals by fire and hammer ; and in this sense RV uses the subst. forger, Gn 4** ' Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting in- strument of brass and iron ' (iyirrbj va'y, AV ' an instructer [m. ' whetter '] of every artificer in brass and iron'; so RVm). The passage is difficult, perhaps corrupt ; it is fully discussed in Dillmann and in Spurrell.

But in AV ' forge ' and ' forger ' are used only in the metaphorical sense of framing or inventing lies : Job 13* ' ye are forgers of lies ' (n|T^'"'?;b) ; Ps 1 19°^ ' The proud have forged a lie against me ' {^ps '^i; sVra) ; and Sir 5P 'lips that forge lies' (ipya^oiiivui' ^eCSos). The Geneva tr. of Lk 19' is, ' If I have taken from any men by forged cauillation, I restore h ym fouie folde.' And Shaks. Mich. II. IV. i.

40, gives— • If thou deny*st it twenty times, thou liest ; And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. J. Hastings.