A name from Scripture
Sawyer
SOY-er
Meaning
Woodcutter; One who saws
English origin · Boy
What it points to
Sawyer follows the Carpenter — humble hands working, shaping what God grows, the woodcutter whose craft was sanctified by Jesus in the workshop of Nazareth.
Verses · King James Version
“Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?”
Matthew 13:55
“Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon?”
Mark 6:3