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:
Psalms 102:14: "thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust"
Psalms 118:22: " The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."
Proverbs 11:1: "is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight."
Proverbs 16:11: "and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the bag"
Proverbs 17:8: "A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever"
Proverbs 20:10: " Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
Proverbs 20:10: "Divers weights, Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD."
Proverbs 20:23: " Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good."
Proverbs 20:23: "Divers weights Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good."
Proverbs 24:31: "and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down."
Proverbs 26:8: "As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool."
Proverbs 26:27: "a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon"
Proverbs 27:3: " A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier"
Ecclesiastes 3:5: "A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace,"
Ecclesiastes 3:5: "to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; to gather stones together; a time to embrace,"
Ecclesiastes 10:9: "Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered"
Isaiah 8:14: "And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both"
Isaiah 14:19: "with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet."
Isaiah 27:9: "his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder,"
Isaiah 27:9: "all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images"
Isaiah 28:16: "I lay for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner"
Isaiah 28:16: "for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:"
Isaiah 30:30: "fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones."
Isaiah 34:11: "it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness."
Isaiah 37:19: "the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed"
Isaiah 54:11: "behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires."
Isaiah 54:12: "thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders"
Isaiah 54:12: "of carbuncles, and all thy borders stones."
Isaiah 60:17: "wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace,"
Isaiah 62:10: "the highway; gather out the stones; the stones; lift up a standard for"
Jeremiah 2:27: "to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: they have turned"
Jeremiah 3:9: "the land, and committed adultery stones and with stocks."
Jeremiah 43:9: "Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln,"
Jeremiah 43:10: "his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread"
Jeremiah 51:26: "And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations;"
Jeremiah 51:26: "of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; thou shalt be desolate"
Jeremiah 51:63: "this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst"
Lamentations 3:53: "my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone"
Lamentations 4:1: "how is the most fine gold changed! the stones are poured out in the top of every"
Ezekiel 1:26: "was the likeness of a throne, of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne"
Ezekiel 10:1: "there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne."
Ezekiel 10:9: "of the wheels was as the color of a beryl stone."
Ezekiel 11:19: "spirit within the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give"
Ezekiel 13:11: "an overflowing and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind"
Ezekiel 13:13: "an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume"
Ezekiel 16:40: "a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords."
Ezekiel 20:32: "as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone."
Ezekiel 23:47: "And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons"
Ezekiel 26:12: "houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water."
Ezekiel 27:22: "spices, and with all precious stones, and gold."
