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 command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
H68
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
H68
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
H68
And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
H68
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
H68
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
H68
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
H68
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
H68
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
H68
And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
H68
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
H68
As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
H68
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
H68
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
H68
And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
H68
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
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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