even (stone) · Rightly

Meaning

Stonea (the) stone · stone, material of idols and buildings

How it's translated

a stone 3
stone of 2
and stone 2
and stone the 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 6
Ezra 2

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
Daniel 2:45In contextForasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Daniel 5:4In contextThey drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Daniel 5:23In contextBut hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines, have drunk wine in them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified:
Daniel 6:17In contextAnd a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.
Ezra 5:8Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on, and prospereth in their hands.

All 8 verses, by book

Ezra 2: 5:8 6:4
Daniel 6: 2:34 2:35 2:45 5:4 5:23 6:17

Aramaic dictionary

אֶ֫בֶן even · stone

1) stone 1a) a (the) stone 1b) stone, material of idols and buildings

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.