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 if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;
H68
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
H68
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
H68
A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.
H810
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
H68
And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
H68
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
H68
And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
H68
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
H68
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
H68
And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
H68
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
H68
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
H68
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
H68
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
H6481
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
H68
And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
H68
Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.
H68
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
H68
Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
H68
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.
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.
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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