What Does “Carpenter” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
Someone who works with his hands at a trade. In Mark 6:3, the Latin word is “faber.” The Spanish Bible of 1836 translates it as “craftsman”; the Douay-Rheims and many Bibles today say “the carpenter.”
Where it appears in the Bible
Mark 6:3; Matthew 13:55
What the Bible says
Mark 6:3
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joseph, and Jude, and Simon? are not also his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in regard of him.
Matthew 13:55
Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Jude:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “artesano”; Mark 6:3 in the Vulgate and in the NABRE, with its note; Matthew 13:55