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:
Ezekiel 28:13: "of God; every precious stone the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,"
Ezekiel 28:14: "of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire."
Ezekiel 28:16: "and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire."
Ezekiel 36:26: "within the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give"
Ezekiel 38:22: "are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone."
Ezekiel 40:42: "And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit"
Daniel 11:38: "with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things."
Micah 1:6: "and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations"
Micah 6:11: "balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?"
Habakkuk 2:11: "For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber"
Habakkuk 2:19: "to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, shall teach! Behold,"
Haggai 2:15: "this day and upward, a stone was laid upon"
Haggai 2:15: "a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:"
Zechariah 3:9: "For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua;"
Zechariah 3:9: "Joshua; one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave"
Zechariah 4:7: "thou shalt become a plain: the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace"
Zechariah 4:10: "for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those"
Zechariah 5:4: "of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones"
Zechariah 5:8: "of the ephah; the weight of lead upon the mouth"
Zechariah 9:15: "shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with slingstones; with slingstones; and they shall drink,"
Zechariah 9:16: "as the flock of his people: they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land."
Zechariah 12:3: "Jerusalem a burdensome stone people: all that burden"
