STONE-SQUARERS.Only 1Ki_5:18 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ; RV [Note: Revised Version.] has Gebalites as Jos_13:5 RV [Note: Revised Version.] , that is, men of the Phnician city of Gebal, mentioned Eze_27:9, where the ancients and wise men of Gebal are referred to as calkers of ships. It has recently been suggested that the gentilic name had become an appellative in the sense of stonecutter (S BOT, Kings, 83 f.), which is the meaning of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . Others would emend to read did hew them and border them, i.e. provide the stones with marginal drafts or with bevels. Cf. Arts and Crafts, § 3.
A. R. S. Kennedy.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
stōn?skwâr-ẽrz: the King James Version in 1Ki_5:18; the Revised Version (British and American) ?the Gebalites? (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.