Genesis 28:11
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
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Stones
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Revelation 21:19
And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;
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אֶבֶן
ʼeben · eh'-ben
142 times translated as this KJV form264 total Strong's occurrences
a stone
Strong's KJV usage: carbuncle, mason, plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 28:11Strong's last: Zechariah 9:16
Open full H68 profile →λίθος
líthos · lee'-thos
16 times translated as this KJV form59 total Strong's occurrences
a stone (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(mill-, stumbling-)stone.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 3:9Strong's last: Revelation 21:19
Open full G3037 profile →גָּזִית
gâzîyth · gaw-zeeth'
4 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
something cut, i.e. dressed stone
Strong's KJV usage: hewed, hewn stone, wrought.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 7:9Strong's last: Isaiah 9:10
Open full H1496 profile →אֶבֶן
ʼeben · eh'-ben
2 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: stone.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 5:8Strong's last: Ezra 6:4
Open full H69 profile →λιθοβολέω
lithoboléō · lith-ob-ol-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to throw stones, i.e. lapidate
Strong's KJV usage: :--stone, cast stones.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Mark 12:4Strong's last: Mark 12:4
Open full G3036 profile →אֶשֶׁךְ
ʼeshek · eh'-shek
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a testicle (as a lump)
Strong's KJV usage: stone.
Strong's first: Leviticus 21:20Strong's last: Leviticus 21:20
Open full H810 profile →זָוִית
zâvîyth · zaw-veeth'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
an angle (as projecting), i.e. (by implication) a corner-column (or anta)
Strong's KJV usage: corner(stone).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 144:12Strong's last: Psalms 144:12
Open full H2106 profile →חָצָץ
châtsâts · khaw-tsawts'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
properly, something cutting; hence, gravel (as grit); an arrow
Strong's KJV usage: arrow, gravel (stone).
Strong's first: Lamentations 3:16Strong's last: Lamentations 3:16
Open full H2687 profile →חֶרֶשׂ
cheres · kheh'-res
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
a piece of pottery
Strong's KJV usage: earth(-en), (pot-) sherd, stone.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 41:30Strong's last: Job 41:30
Open full H2789 profile →סֶלַע
çelaʻ · seh'-lah
1 times translated as this KJV form60 total Strong's occurrences
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
Strong's KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Strong's first: Psalms 137:9Strong's last: Psalms 137:9
Open full H5553 profile →סָקַל
çâqal · saw-kal'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation or its contrary (as if a delapidation)
Strong's KJV usage: (cast, gather out, throw) stone(-s), × surely.
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:2Strong's last: Isaiah 5:2
Open full H5619 profile →פַּחַד
pachad · pakh'-ad
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a testicle (as a cause of shame akin to fear)
Strong's KJV usage: stone.
Strong's first: Job 40:17Strong's last: Job 40:17
Open full H6344 profile →פָּצַע
pâtsaʻ · paw-tsah'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to split, i.e. wound
Strong's KJV usage: wound.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 23:1Strong's last: Deuteronomy 23:1
Open full H6481 profile →צוּר
tsûwr · tsoor
1 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
Strong's KJV usage: edge, × (mighty) God (one), rock, × sharp, stone, × strength, × strong. See also 1049.
Strong's first: Job 22:24Strong's last: Job 22:24
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H68
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
H68
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
H68
And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
H68
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
H68
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
H68
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
H68
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
H68
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
H68
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
H68
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
H68
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.
H68
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
H68
And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
H68
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
H68
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
H68
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
H68
And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;
H68
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
H68
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
H68
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
H68
And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
H68
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
H68
Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:
H68
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
H68
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.
English meaning and historical usage.
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stone
STONE, noun [Gr.]
1. A concretion of some species of earth, as lime, silex, clay and the like, usually in combination with some species of air or gas, with sulphur or with a metallic substance; a hard compact body, of any form and size. In popular language, very large masses of concretions are called rocks; and very small concretions are universally called gravel or sand, or grains of sand. Stones are of various degrees of hardness and weight; they are brittle and fusible, but not malleable, ductile, or soluble in water. Stones are of great and extensive use int he construction of buildings of all kinds, for walls, fences, piers, abutments, arches, monuments, sculpture and the like. When we speak of the substance generally, we use stone in the singular; as a house or wall of stone But when we speak of particular separate masses, we say, a stone or the stones.
2. A gem; a precious stone
Inestimable stones, unvalud jewels.
3. Any thing made of stone; a mirror.
4. A calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
5. A testicle.
6. The nut of a drupe or stone fruit; or the hard covering inclosing the kernel, and itself inclosed by the pulpy pericarp.
7. In Great Britain, the weight of fourteen pounds. [8, 12, 14, or 16.] [Not used in the United States, except in reference to the riders of horses in races.]
8. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
Should some relentless eye glance on the stone where our cold relics lie--
9. It is used to express torpidness and insensibility; as a heart of stone
I have not yet forgot myself to stone
10. stone is prefixed to some words to qualify their signification. Thus stone-dead, is perfectly dead, as lifeless as a stone; stone-still, still as a stone perfectly still; stone-blind, blind as a stone perfectly blind.
To leave no stone unturned, a proverbial expression which signifies to do every thing that can be done; to use all practicable means to effect an object.
Meteoric stones, stones which fall from the atmosphere, as after the displosion of a meteor.
Philosophers stone a pretended substance that was formerly supposed to have the property of turning any other substance into gold.
STONE, adjective Made of stone or like stone; as a stone jug.
STONE, verb transitive
1. To pelt, beat or kill with stones.
And they stoned Stephen calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. Acts 7:58.
2. To harden.
O perjurd woman, thou dost stone my heart. [Little used.]
3. To free from stones; as, to stone raisins.
4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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