Collins dictionary gives the following description for the word stuff (noun) ‘you can use stuff to refer to things such as a substance, a collection of things, events or ideas, or the contents of something in a general way without mentioning the thing itself by name’ it can also be used as a verb if you ‘stuff something’. Another source gave twenty-eight different definitions on the word, fifteen as a noun with the remainder as a verb. Two of the verbs used indicate the work of a taxidermist in stuffing the skin of an animal or a bird to produce a lifelike image. It also could refer to a cook putting sage and onion into a bird’s cavity ready for the oven. Two definitions of the noun give us details of things, worthless things such as clutter and valuable things.
There are fifteen quotations of the word stuff in the Old Testament and one quotation in the New Testament. In Exodus chapter 36 verses 1-7 we read of two men, Bezaleel and Aholiab, who were skilled craftsmen handling precious things such as gold, silver, brass, jewels and a variety of fabrics in the construction of the Tabernacle.
