Stone
אֶ֫בֶןStrong’s H0068even (e-ven)
Appears in 239 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Even is the Hebrew word usually translated “stone”, “stones” and “stones of”. It appears in 239 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- Stone (large or small)common stone (in natural state) · stone, as material · precious stones, stones of fire · stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon · weight · plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal · stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice · sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines · (simile) · (metaph)
How it's translated
- stone 43
- stones 33
- stones of 27
- a stone 23
- the stone 16
- the stones 16
- and stone 16
- with stones 14
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 25
- Deuteronomy 24
- Joshua 20
- 1 Kings 19
- Ezekiel 17
- 2 Chronicles 14
27 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 3:9In contextFor behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
- Zechariah 4:7In contextWho art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
- Zechariah 4:10In contextFor who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
- Zechariah 5:4In contextI 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.
- Zechariah 5:8In contextAnd he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.
- Zechariah 9:15In contextThe 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.
All 239 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֶ֫בֶן even · stone
: stone 1) stone (large or small) 1a) common stone (in natural state) 1b) stone, as material 1b1) of tablets 1b2) marble, hewn stones 1c) precious stones, stones of fire 1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon 1e) weight 1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal 1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice 1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines 1i) (simile) 1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness 1i2) strength, firmness, solidity 1i3) commonness 1j) (metaph) 1j1) petrified with terror …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STONE, noun
[Gr.]
- 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.
- A gem; a precious stone
- Any thing made of stone; a mirror.
- A calculous concretion in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.
All definitions and other forms of “stone”
- A testicle.
- The nut of a drupe or stone fruit; or the hard covering inclosing the kernel, and itself inclosed by the pulpy pericarp.
- 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.]
- A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
- It is used to express torpidness and insensibility; as a heart of stone
- stone is prefixed to some words to qualify their signification.
STONE, adjective
Made of stone or like stone; as a stone jug.
STONE, verb transitive
- To pelt, beat or kill with stones.“And they stoned Stephen calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” Acts 7:59
- To harden.
- To free from stones; as, to stone raisins.
- 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). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.