'Costly' in the Bible

The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

For the redemption of their life is costly, no payment is ever enough,

While he was at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster jar of ointment of pure nard -- very costly. She broke the jar, and poured it over his head.

But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;