To stone
רָגַםStrong’s H7275ragam (ra-gam)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ragam is the Hebrew word usually translated “stoned”, “stone” and “stone him”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To stone, slay or kill by stoning(Qal) to stone
How it's translated
- and they stoned 5
- and they will stone 3
- they will stone him 1
- people will stone 1
- certainly 1
- they will stone 1
- to stone 1
- it will stone 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
- Numbers 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
- Joshua 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 20:27A 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.
- Leviticus 24:14Bring forth him that hath cursed without the camp; and let all that heard him lay their hands upon his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- Leviticus 24:16And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:23And 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.
- Numbers 14:10But 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.
- Numbers 15:35And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
Hebrew dictionary
רָגַם ragam · to stone
1) to stone, slay or kill by stoning 1a) (Qal) to stone
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.