Editing Celt (tool) (section)

==Etymology==
The term "celt" seems to have come about from a copyist's error in many medieval manuscript copies of [[Book of Job|Job]] 19:24 in the Latin [[Vulgate]] Bible, which became enshrined in the authoritative [[Sixto-Clementine Vulgate|Sixto-Clementine]] printed edition of 1592. Where all earlier versions<ref name="Gibson1899"/> (the [[Codex Amiatinus]], for example) have ''vel certe'' (the Latin for 'but surely'), the Sixto-Clementine has ''vel celte''. The Hebrew has לעד (''lā‘aḏ'') at this point, which means 'forever'. The editors of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] "[incline] to the belief that ''celtis'' was a phantom word",<ref name="Laistner1925"/> simply a misspelling of ''certe''. However, some scholars over the years have treated ''celtis'' as a real Latin word.<ref name="Laistner1925"/><ref name="Burns1995"/>

From the context of Job 19:24 ("Oh, that my words were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever!"), the Latin word ''celte'' was assumed to be some kind of ancient [[chisel]]. Eighteenth-century [[antiquarian]]s, such as {{Interlanguage link multi|Lorenz Beger|de|Lorenz Beger|fr|Lorenz Beger}}, adopted the word for the [[stone tool|stone]] and bronze tools they were finding at prehistoric sites; the ''OED'' suggests that a "fancied etymological connexion"<ref name="Burns1995"/> with the [[Celts|prehistoric Celts]] assisted its passage into common use.