Strong's #68: 'eben (pronounced eh'-ben)
from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build; a stone:--+ carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'eben
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) (metaphorically)
1j1) petrified with terror
1j2) perverse, hard heart
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from the root of H1129 through the meaning to build
Usage:
This word is used 272 times:
1 Kings 18:32: "And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made"
1 Kings 18:38: "the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that"
1 Kings 21:13: "out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died."
2 Kings 3:19: "every good piece of land with stones."
2 Kings 3:25: "piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells"
2 Kings 3:25: "only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote"
2 Kings 12:12: "And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone"
2 Kings 12:12: "and to buy timber and hewed stone the breaches of the house"
2 Kings 16:17: "that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones."
2 Kings 19:18: "the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed"
2 Kings 22:6: "and to buy timber and hewn stone the house."
1 Chronicles 12:2: "with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow,"
1 Chronicles 20:2: "it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David's"
1 Chronicles 22:2: "masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God."
1 Chronicles 22:14: "it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto."
1 Chronicles 22:15: "with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, of cunning men"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colors,"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones,"
1 Chronicles 29:2: "and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance."
1 Chronicles 29:2: "of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance."
1 Chronicles 29:8: "And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD,"
2 Chronicles 1:15: "silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, made he as the sycamore trees that"
2 Chronicles 2:14: "and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen,"
2 Chronicles 3:6: "the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold of Parvaim."
2 Chronicles 9:1: "and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed"
2 Chronicles 9:9: "abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice"
2 Chronicles 9:10: "brought algum trees and precious stones."
2 Chronicles 9:27: "silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees he as the sycamore trees that"
2 Chronicles 10:18: "and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed"
2 Chronicles 16:6: "Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha"
2 Chronicles 24:21: "And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court"
2 Chronicles 26:14: "and bows, and slings to cast stones."
2 Chronicles 26:15: "to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad;"
2 Chronicles 32:27: "for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant"
2 Chronicles 34:11: "gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber and to floor"
Nehemiah 4:2: "in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which"
Nehemiah 4:3: "a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall."
Nehemiah 9:11: "thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters."
Job 5:23: "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field"
Job 6:12: "Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?"
Job 8:17: "the heap, and seeth the place of stones."
Job 14:19: "The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth;"
Job 28:2: "out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone."
Job 28:3: "and searcheth out all perfection: the stones and the shadow of death."
Job 28:6: " The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold."
Job 38:6: "or who laid the corner stone"
Job 38:30: "The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen."
Job 41:24: "His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether"
Job 41:28: "The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble."
Psalms 91:12: "lest thou dash thy foot against a stone."
