◄ H68 ►
אבן
Transliteration
'eben;
Pronunciation
eh'-ben
Parts of Speech
n f
Root Word (Etymology)
from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
Dictionary Aids
TWOT Reference: 9
KJV Translation Count — 272x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: stone(s) (247), weight(s) (7), divers weights + 068 (3), hailstones (3), stony (2), carbuncle 688 (1), hailstones 1259 (1), hailstones 417 (1), headstone (1), masons 7023 (1), plummet (1), slingstones (1)
Outline of Biblical Usage
1. stone (large or small)
a. common stone (in natural state)
b. stone, as material
1. of tablets
2. marble, hewn stones
c. precious stones, stones of fire
d. stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon
e. weight
f. plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal
g. stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice
h. sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines
i. (simile)
1. sinking in water, motionlessness
2. strength, firmness, solidity
3. commonness
j. (metaph)
1. petrified with terror
2. perverse, hard heart
Strong's Definitions
'eben, 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).
Concordance Results Using KJV
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for H68, and slime had they for morter.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the H68s of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the H68 that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
And this H68, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great H68 was upon the well's mouth.
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the H68 from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the H68 again upon the well's mouth in his place.
And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the H68 from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the H68 from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.