Lexicon :: Strong's H68 - 'eḇen

Gold from that land is pure;[fn] bdellium[fn] and onyx[fn] are also there.

They said to each other, “Come, let’s make oven-fired bricks.” (They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.)

He reached a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it there at his head, and lay down in that place.

Early in the morning Jacob took the stone that was near his head and set it up as a marker. He poured oil on top of it

“This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.”

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. But a large stone covered the opening of the well.

But they replied, “We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep,[fn] he went up and rolled the stone from the opening and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a marker.

Jacob set up a marker at the place where he had spoken to him ​— ​a stone marker. He poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it.

“Yet his bow remained steady,

and his strong arms were made agile

by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,

by the name of[fn] the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

So the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt ​— ​over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs ​— ​and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

The floods covered them;

they sank to the depths like a stone.

terror and dread will fall on them.

They will be as still[fn] as a stone

because of your powerful arm

until your people pass by, LORD,

until the people whom you purchased[fn] pass by.

When Moses’s hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down on it. Then Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.

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

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

The LORD said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

“and onyx[fn] along with other gemstones for mounting on the ephod and breastpiece.[fn]

“Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of Israel’s sons:

“Place a setting of gemstones[fn] on it, four rows of stones:

The first row should be

a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;[fn]

“The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

“to cut gemstones for mounting, and to carve wood for work in every craft.

When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.

The LORD said to Moses, “Cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones. He got up early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hand, he climbed Mount Sinai, just as the LORD had commanded him.

“and onyx with gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece.

The leaders brought onyx and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

“to cut gemstones for mounting, and to carve wood for work in every kind of artistic craft.

Then they mounted the onyx stones surrounded with gold filigree settings, engraved with the names of Israel’s sons as a gem cutter engraves a seal.

They mounted four rows of gemstones[fn] on it.

The first row was

a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald;[fn]

The twelve stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the twelve tribes.

“the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.

“Then they are to take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster to replaster the house.

“It must be torn down with its stones, its beams, and all its plaster, and taken outside the city to an unclean place.

“You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure,[fn] and an honest liquid measure;[fn] I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

“Say to the Israelites: Any Israelite or alien residing in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death; the people of the country are to stone him.

“A man or a woman who is[fn] a medium or a spiritist must be put to death. They are to be stoned; their death is their own fault.”

After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

“Do not make worthless idols for yourselves, set up a carved image or sacred pillar for yourselves, or place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

While the whole community threatened to stone them, the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the tent of meeting.

Then the LORD told Moses, “The man is to be put to death. The entire community is to stone him outside the camp.”