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
They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.
H68
And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
H68
And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
H68
The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants: they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.
H68
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
H68
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
H68
But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
H68
Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
H68
I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
H68
The LORD of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.
H68
And the LORD their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.
G3037
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
G3037
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
G3037
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
G3036
And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
G3037
And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
G3037
Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
G3037
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
G3037
And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
G3037
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
G3037
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
G3037
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
G3037
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
G3037
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
G3037
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
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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