He was the son of a widowed woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian man, a worker in copper; and he was full of the wisdom and the understanding and the knowledge for doing every sort of work in copper.
وهو ابن امرأة ارملة من سبط نفتالي ،‏ وأبوه رجل صوري ،‏ عامل بالنحاس ؛‏ وكان ممتلئا حكمة وفهما ومعرفة لعمل كل عمل في النحاس .‏