259 occurrences in 13 translations

'Stones' in the Bible

(The gold of that land [is] good; bdellium and onyx stones [are] there.)

Verse ConceptsPrecious Stones

And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Verse ConceptsNightThe SunBedsSunsetsStones As Monuments

And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

Verse ConceptsStones As Monuments

Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today." That is why it was called Galeed.

Verse ConceptsThings As Witnesses

"Look!" Laban added, "Here is the stack of stones and here is the pillar that I've set up between you and me.

Verse ConceptsObelisksCairns

This stack is a witness, and so is this pillar, reminding me not to cross beyond this stack of stones, and reminding you not to pass by this stack in my direction, intending to cause harm.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByObelisksCairnsThings As Witnesses

If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfDefilement, Ceremonial CausesArchitectureToolsCutting StonesLack Of Holiness

You are not to bow down to their gods or serve them. You are not to follow their practices, but you are to overthrow them completely and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

Verse ConceptsAbolitionServanthood, And Worship Of GodStonesNot Imitating EvilDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisksDo Not Have Other godsHow Not To Worshipstatues

and Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. Early in the morning he built an altar at the foot of the mountain and arranged twelve standing stones -- according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsAltarsThe Number TwelveBuildingMoses, Significance OfPillarsRising EarlyMorning DevotionsObelisksThose Who Rose EarlyTwelve Tribes

And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodGod, Will OfLaw, Ten CommandmentsMountainsStonesTabletsGoing Up MountainsThe Law Given By GodWood And StoneGod Writing With His Fingercommandments

Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesJewellery And God

And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

Verse ConceptsTwo Ornaments

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

Verse ConceptsCraftsmenArts And Crafts, Types ofSealsPlaitingengravingGold Items For The Tabernacl

And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

Verse ConceptsShouldersShoulder Pieces

And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.

Verse ConceptsEmeraldsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

Verse ConceptsSealsengravingTwelve TribesTwelve Things

And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofSplitting WoodCutting StonesWood And Stonewoodworkingcraftsmanship

Then Moses came down the mountain with the two stones of the law in his hand; the stones had writing on their two sides, on the front and on the back.

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownTwo Stone TabletsTwo Sided

The stones were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, cut on the stones.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodLaw, Ten CommandmentsengravingGod Writing With His Finger

And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.

Verse ConceptsFinger Of GodTwoLaw, Ten CommandmentsLeaders, PoliticalToolsWritingSplitting RocksCutting StonesStone ItemsTwo Stone TabletsBreaking The Ten CommandmentsGod Writing With His Finger

So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.

Verse ConceptsTabletsRising EarlyCutting StonesGoing Up MountainsStone ItemsThose Who Rose EarlyTwo Stone Tablets

And for forty days and forty nights Moses was there with the Lord, and in that time he had no food or drink. And he put in writing on the stones the words of the agreement, the ten rules of the law.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Nature OfThe Number FortyWaterForty DaysTen ThingsMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At SinaiThe Law Given Through Moses

Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.

Verse ConceptsMetamorphosisecstasyMoses, Significance OfAurasMan Going DownLight Of God's PeopleTwo Stone TabletsIgnorant Of Facts

And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

Verse ConceptsJewellery And God

And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

Verse ConceptsJewelsJewellery And God

And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCutting StonesJewellerywoodworkingcraftsmanship

And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsengravingSeals

And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsShoulder Pieces

And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.

Verse ConceptsPrecious StonesFour Other ThingsJewellery And God

And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.

Verse ConceptsSealsengravingTwelve TribesTwelve Things

Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesOutside The CityPlucking OutBuilding Stones RejectedUnclean Things

And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house.

Verse ConceptsClayBricksPlasterBuilding Stones Rejected

And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

Verse Conceptsmold

And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of HousesOutside The CityUnclean Things

Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStonesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfAliens, Believers DutyStrangersInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

Verse ConceptsMidgetsShort PeopleBent OverEyes HarmedMale Genitals

That which hath its stones bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut, ye shall not offer unto Jehovah; neither shall ye do thus in your land.

Verse ConceptsCrushingBlemished CreaturesMale Genitals

and he who is execrating the name of Jehovah is certainly put to death; all the company do certainly cast stones at him; as a sojourner so a native, in his execrating the Name, is put to death.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyStrangersProfaning God's NameForeigners Included In The LawInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsCamps, Unclean ThingsDeath penaltyStoningOutside The Camp

The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.

Verse ConceptsCrushingGrindingOilCakesBricksGrinding Foodcooking

But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfAppearances Of God In OtStoningTheophanyFear Of Stoning

And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltySabbath, In Ot

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyOutside The Camp

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesGoldsmithsDestruction Of Satan's Works

And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writing on the two stones of the law.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsStonesTabletsTen ThingsTwo Stone TabletsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinaicommandments

These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

Verse ConceptsCongregationStonesTabletsVoicesAdding To GodGod Appearing In FireTwo Stone Tablets

A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Description OfBrass

When I had gone up into the mountain to be given the stones on which was recorded the agreement which the Lord made with you, I was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights without taking food or drinking water.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForWaterMore Than One MonthFasting For Long PeriodsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

And the Lord gave me the two stones with writing on them done by the finger of God: on them were recorded all the words which the Lord said to you on the mountain out of the heart of the fire, on the day of the great meeting.

Verse ConceptsInscriptionsGod Appearing In FireTwo Stone TabletsGod Writing With His Finger

Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.

Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthTwo Stone TabletsTerms Of The Covenant At Sinai

So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.

Verse ConceptsMan Going DownFire Emanating From GodTwo Stone Tablets

And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksTwo Stone Tablets

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionGoing Up MountainsTwo Stone Tablets

And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.

So I made a chest out of acacia wood and chiseled two tablets of stones just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, ConstructionToolsTwo Stone Tablets

And he put on the stones, as in the first writing, the ten rules which the Lord gave you on the mountain out of the fire on the day of the great meeting: and the Lord gave the stones to me.

Verse ConceptsLaw, Ten CommandmentsTen ThingsGod Appearing In FireThe Law Given By God

And turning round I came down from the mountain and put the stones in the ark which I had made; and there they are as the Lord gave me orders.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionTabletsMan Going Down

And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfGroups Of SlavesInstructions About StoningGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

Verse ConceptsGatesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfBusiness At The GatewayInstructions About Stoning

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Verse Conceptsevil, warnings againstBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSelf WillChildren, UngratefulFear Is DueInstructions About Stoning

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsCrushingeunuchsMutilationMale Genitalsmanhoodcrushescutting

No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyGuaranteeMillstonesCreditorsLaws About Pledges

And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:

Verse ConceptsPlasterCrossing Into The Promised Land

Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.

Verse ConceptsLand, Spiritual Aspects OfMilk And Honey

Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

Verse ConceptsPlasterCrossing Into The Promised Land

And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfIronToolsAltars To The Lord

Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The LordRegulating Sacrifices

And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

Verse ConceptsPlainnessJournalizing

And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

Verse ConceptsStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

Verse ConceptsAskingMeaning

Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

Verse ConceptsCessationStones As MonumentsThings Stopping

And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The JordanPlaces To This Day

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

Verse ConceptsStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

Verse ConceptsAskingMeaning

And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

Verse ConceptsThe DeadTrouble, Causes OfDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRetributionBurning PeopleTroubling Groups Of PeopleFamily Death

And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyBurning CitiesPlaces To This Day

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

Verse ConceptsArchitectureServanthood, In Life Of BelieversToolsBook of the LawIron ObjectsThe Law Given Through MosesPeace offerings

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Verse ConceptsCopies Of Documents

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

Verse ConceptsHailSkyWeather, As God's JudgmentGod KillingIsrael FleeingGod Killed The Peoples

And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:

Verse ConceptsRolling

Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth of the hole in the rock, and make those five kings come out to me.

Verse ConceptsFive PeopleThe Act Of OpeningOpening PitsBringing People Out Of Other Places

And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.

Verse ConceptsInformation In SecretCurbing Speech

Ehud escaped while they delayed, and passed beyond the sculptured stones, and escaped to Se-i'rah.

Verse ConceptsEscapingEscaping, Physical ThingsExamples Of EscapingEscaping From People

and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order; then take the second bull, and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Ashe'rah which you shall cut down."

Verse ConceptsHeightWoodAltars, Built ByAltars To The LordBuilding AltarsFirewood

And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd's bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.

Verse ConceptsBagsequipping, physicalSlingsSmall Things God UsesFive ThingsThrowing StonesSlinging Stones

As soon as the boy was gone, David got up from the south side [beside the mound of stones] and fell on his face to the ground [in submission and respect], and bowed three times. Then they kissed one another and wept together, but David wept more.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfSympathyWeepingFriendship, Examples OfKissesTearsActing Three Timesgoodbyes

“When someone pursues you and attempts to take your life, my lord’s life will be tucked safely in the place where the Lord your God protects the living. However, He will fling away your enemies’ lives like stones from a sling.

Verse ConceptsSlingsThrowing Stones

And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head. And he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.

Verse ConceptsCrowns, Worn ByGoldJewelsJewelleryWeights Of GoldTalentsweight

And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.

Verse ConceptsGuardsStoningThrowing Stones

And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

Verse ConceptsDust, Figurative UsedirtThrowing StonesWiping DustCursing The Ungodly

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
λίθος 
Lithos 
Usage: 41

λιθοβολέω 
Lithoboleo 
Usage: 5

πετρώδης 
Petrodes 
Usage: 0

H69
אבן 
'eben (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

אשׁך 
'eshek 
Usage: 1

גּבלי 
Gibliy 
Usage: 2

זוית 
Zaviyth 
Usage: 2

חצץ 
Chatsats 
Usage: 2

חרשׂ 
Cheres 
Usage: 17

סלע 
Cela` 
Usage: 60

ספּיר 
Cappiyr 
Usage: 11

סקל 
Caqal 
Usage: 22

פּחד 
Pachad 
Usage: 1

צר צוּר 
Tsuwr 
Usage: 76

צר 
Tsor 
Usage: 5

צרר צרור 
Ts@rowr 
Usage: 10

רגם 
Ragam 
Usage: 16

שׁמיר 
Shamiyr 
Usage: 11

καταλιθάζω 
Katalithazo 
Usage: 1

λαξευτός 
Laxeutos 
hewn in stone
Usage: 1

λιθάζω 
Lithazo 
Usage: 7

λίθινος 
Lithinos 
of stone
Usage: 3

Πέτρος 
Petros 
Usage: 160

πρόσκομμα 
Proskomma 
Usage: 6

ψῆφος 
Psephos 
Usage: 1

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