Acts 19:24

Verse 24. A silversmith. The word used here denotes one who works in silver in any way, either in making money, in stamping silver, or in forming utensils of it. It is probable that the employment of this man was confined to the business here specified, that of making shrines--as his complaint Ac 19:26,27 implied, that destroying this would be sufficient to throw them all out of employment. Silver shrines. naouv. Temples. The word shrine properly means a case, small chest, or box; particularly applied to a box in which sacred things are deposited. Hence we hear of the shrines for relics.--Webster.