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 the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
H68
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
H68
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
H68
And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
H68
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
H1496
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
H68
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
H68
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
H68
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
H68
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
H68
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
H1496
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
H1496
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
H68
And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
H68
And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
H68
And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
H68
And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
H68
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
H68
Then king Asa made a proclamation throughout all Judah; none was exempted: and they took away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
H68
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
H68
And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
H68
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
H68
And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
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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