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Lexicon :: Strong's H68 - 'eḇen

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אֶבֶן
Transliteration
'eḇen
Pronunciation
eh'-ben
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the root of בָּנָה (H1129) through the meaning to build
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 9

Strong’s Definitions

אֶבֶן ʼeben, eh'-ben; from the root of H1129 through the meaning to build; a stone:— carbuncle, mason, plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 269x

The KJV translates Strong's H68 in the following manner: stone(s) (247x), weight(s) (7x), divers weights (with H68) (3x), hailstones (3x), stony (2x), carbuncle (with H688) (1x), hailstones (with H1259) (1x), hailstones (with H417) (1x), headstone (1x), masons (with H7023) (1x), plummet (1x), slingstones (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 269x
The KJV translates Strong's H68 in the following manner: stone(s) (247x), weight(s) (7x), divers weights (with H68) (3x), hailstones (3x), stony (2x), carbuncle (with H688) (1x), hailstones (with H1259) (1x), hailstones (with H417) (1x), headstone (1x), masons (with H7023) (1x), plummet (1x), slingstones (1x).
  1. stone (large or small)

    1. common stone (in natural state)

    2. stone, as material

      1. of tablets

      2. marble, hewn stones

    3. precious stones, stones of fire

    4. stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon

    5. weight

    6. plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal

    7. stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice

    8. sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines

    9. (simile)

      1. sinking in water, motionlessness

      2. strength, firmness, solidity

      3. commonness

    10. (metaph)

      1. petrified with terror

      2. perverse, hard heart

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶבֶן ʼeben, eh'-ben; from the root of H1129 through the meaning to build; a stone:— carbuncle, mason, plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
STRONGS H68: Abbreviations
אֶ֫בֶן 274 noun feminineGenesis 29:2 (masculine1 Samuel 17:40 ?) stone (Assyrian abnu, = the sharp, projecting ? see DlW, Pr 107; Phoenician אבן; Aramaic H69 אֶבֶן, axnbAf; Ethiopic እብን፡ Sabean [ם]אבנ DHMZMG 1883, 341) — א׳ absolute Genesis 28:22 +; אָ֑בֶן Genesis 11:3 +; construct Genesis 49:24 +; suffix אַבְנוֺ 2 Kings 3:25; אֲבָנִים Genesis 31:46 +, etc.; — a stone (large or small).
1. in natural state, used as pillow Genesis 28:11, 18 (E); seat Exodus 17:12 (E); cover of well Genesis 29:2, 3 (twice in verse); Genesis 29:8, 10 (J); causing one to stumble Isaiah 8:14; marring good ground 2 Kings 3:19, 25; hand-missle Exodus 21:18 (JE) Numbers 35:17, 23 (P) 2 Samuel 16:6, 13, especially in judicial stoning, with verb רָגַם Leviticus 20:2, 27; Leviticus 24:23; Numbers 14:10; Numbers 15:35, 36; Joshua 7:25a (all P), so also Deuteronomy 21:21; 2 Chronicles 24:21; Ezekiel 16:40; Ezekiel 23:47; compare 1 Kings 12:18 2 Chronicles 10:18; with verb סָקַל Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 17:5; Deuteronomy 22:21, 24; 1 Kings 21:13; also Joshua 7:25b (J E or D); sling-stones Judges 20:16; 1 Samuel 17:40, 49 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 17:50; 2 Chronicles 26:14; hurled by engines 2 Chronicles 26:15; set up for inscribing law Deuteronomy 27:2, 4, 8; Joshua 8:32 (all D); as memorial Joshua 4:3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 21 (J E D) 1 Samuel 7:12; as sacred pillar (מַצֵּבָה) Genesis 28:18; Genesis 35:14 (anointed with oil), Genesis 28:22 (= בֵּיתאֵל) compare (רֹעֶה) א׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל Genesis 49:24 (see Di); as witness Genesis 31:45 compare Joshua 24:26, 27 (all J E); plural gathered into heap (גַּל) over dead, Joshua 7:26 (see Di) Joshua 8:29; compare Joshua 10:18, 27 (JE) 2 Samuel 18:17; גַּל on which meal was eaten, in a compact Genesis 31:46 (twice in verse) (JE); built into altar Exodus 20:25; Deuteronomy 27:5, 6 (J E D) Joshua 8:31; 1 Kings 18:31, 32, 38; compare 2 Kings 23:15 Greek Version of the LXX Klo (for הבמה); of figured stone (forbidden) מַשְׂכִּית א׳ Leviticus 26:1 (H);גדולה א׳ where ark rested 1 Samuel 6:14, 15 also 1 Samuel 6:18 (MT אבל which see); (see for other note-worthy stones 9 below.
2. stone, as material, of tablets Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 34:1 (plural) Exodus 34:4; Exodus 34:4 (JE) Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:19; Deuteronomy 9:9, 10, 11; Deuteronomy 10:1, 3; of vessels, hence probably Exodus 7:19 (P; א׳ = vessels of stone || עצים) see Di; idols (|| עץ) Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 28:36, 64; Deuteronomy 29:16; 2 Kings 19:18 = Isaiah 37:19; also Jeremiah 3:9; Ezekiel 20:32; pavement 2 Kings 16:17; edifice 1 Kings 6:7 compare Genesis 11:3; also 2 Samuel 5:11; 2 Kings 12:13; 1 Chronicles 22:15; often plural of (worked) stones Leviticus 14:40, 42 (twice in verse); Leviticus 14:43, 45 (P; in wall of house) 2 Kings 22:6 +, compare of city-wall Nehemiah 3:35 [Nehemiah 4:3]; of (ruined) city 1 Kings 15:22; Nehemiah 3:34 [Nehemiah 4:2]; tomb Isaiah 14:19; אֲבָנִים יְקָרוֺת (costly building-stones) 1 Kings 5:31 [1 Kings 5:17]; 1 Kings 7:9, 10, 11 (see also below 3); אַבְנֵי־ שַׁיִשׁ = marble (see Greek Version of the LXX) 1 Chronicles 29:2; אַבְנֵי גָזִית = hewn stones 1 Kings 5:31 [1 Kings 5:17]; 1 Chronicles 22:2; Ezekiel 40:42 (for altar-tables), — compare גָּזִית; מַחְצֵב א׳ 2 Kings 12:13; 2 Kings 22:6; 2 Chronicles 34:11; foundation-stone, corner-stone Isaiah 28:16; Jeremiah 51:26; Job 38:6; Psalm 118:22; cap-stone, completing the building, הָרִאשֹׁנָה הָא׳ Zechariah 4:7 (but see פִּנָּה רֹאש Psalm 118:22 as above), Zechariah 3:9 upon one stone seven eyes, probably refers to this cap- or head-stone; the eyes are symbol of God's watchfulness; perhaps explaining cup-stones found in Orient, see GutheZPV 1890, 129; stone-cutters חָרָשֵׁי א׳ 2 Samuel 5:11; 1 Chronicles 22:15; חֹצְבֵי הָא׳ 2 Kings 12:13 compare 1 Chronicles 22:2.
3. precious stones, generally with modifying word יְקָרָה א׳ collective 2 Samuel 12:30; 1 Kings 10:2 + often (see 2); הַשֹּׁהַם א׳ Genesis 2:12 (J) compare Exodus 25:7; Exodus 28:9; Exodus 35:9, 27; Exodus 39:6 (P) 1 Chronicles 29:2; מִלֻּאִים א׳ Exodus 25:7; Exodus 35:9, 27 compare 1 Chronicles 29:2; סַמִּיר א׳ Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1; אַבְנֵי אֶקְדָּח Isaiah 54:12; חֵפֶץ א׳ ib.; אַבְנֵי פוּח וְרִקְמָה 1 Chronicles 29:2; חֵן א׳ Proverbs 17:8; on אַבְנֵי אֵשׁ (stones of fire) Ezekiel 28:14, 16 as precious stones = Assyrian aban išâti (?) see DlPa 118 & W 40; but Sm and others thunderbolts; also without distinctive modifier Exodus 25:7; Exodus 35:9; חָרַשׁ א׳ engraver in stone Exodus 28:11; compare Exodus 31:5; Exodus 35:33 (P).
†4. stones containing metal, = ore, Deuteronomy 8:9 (see Di) Job 28:2 compare Job 28:3.
†5. a weight, originally stone (see Proverbs 27:3 compare English weight stone = 14 lb) אַבְנֵי־כִיס Proverbs 16:11 (compare Assyrian DlW 38); הַמֶּלֶח א׳ 2 Samuel 14:26 (i.e. accusative to royal standard; compare COT Genesis 23:16); וָא׳ א׳ Deuteronomy 25:13; Proverbs 20:10, 23 (i.e. different weights, for dishonest use); כִּיס אַבְנֵי מִרְמָה Micah 6:11; just weights אַבְנֵי־צֶדֶק Leviticus 19:36; שְׁלֵמָה א׳ Proverbs 11:1; hence also heavy mass of metal (lead) Zechariah 5:8.
†6. plummet Isaiah 34:11 (stones of devastation, or emptiness, compare on sense 2 Kings 21:13; Amos 7:7, 8); also made of metal הַבְּדִּיל הא׳ Zechariah 4:10 (conversely plummet from plumbum).
†7. objects like stones; particle hail, explicitly, אַבְנֵי הַבָּרָד Joshua 10:11 compare Isaiah 30:30; אֶלְגָּבִישׁ א׳ Ezekiel 13:11, 18; Ezekiel 38:22; but also אֲבָנִים גְּדֹלוֺת Joshua 10:11 (E) (compare Assyrian DlW 38); lime-stones אַבְנֵי־גִר Isaiah 27:9.
8. in simile (mostly poetry) of sinking in water Exodus 15:5 = Nehemiah 9:11; motionlessness Exodus 15:16; strength Job 6:12; firmness Job 41:16; solidity (of ice) Job 38:30; in prose, of commonness 1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chronicles 1:15; also metaphor of one in fear 1 Samuel 25:37 (i.e. petrified with terror, compare Exodus 15:16 above); לֵב הָא׳ = perverse, hard heart Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26; אַבְנֵי־נֵזֶר Zechariah 9:16 (of ransomed Israel) — א׳ personified Habakkuk 2:11 compare Habakkuk 2:19; compare Ezekiel 13:11 (see 7 above).
9. In topographic terms (nearly = proper name); אֶבֶן בֹּהַן Joshua 15:6; Joshua 18:17; [H72 הָעֶזֶר א׳ 1 Samuel 5:1; compare 1 Samuel 7:12, also 1 Samuel 4:1 (We Dr)]; הָא׳ הָאָ֑זֶל 1 Samuel 20:19, read הָאַרְגָּב הַלָּאז see Greek Version of the LXX here & 1 Samuel 20:41 (We Dr Klo); הַזֹּחֶלֶת א׳ 1 Kings 1:9 (where WeSkizzen III, 171 compare Arabic Zuhal = Saturn).

אַרְגָּב noun masculine heap, mound (probably); — so read 1 Samuel 20:19 (for אבן), 1 Samuel 20:41 (for ננב), Greek Version of the LXX (αρ σαβ, ερσαβ), Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu HPS.

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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:12; 11:3; 11:3; 23:16; 28:11; 28:18; 28:18; 28:22; 28:22; 29:2; 29:2; 29:3; 29:8; 29:10; 31:45; 31:46; 31:46; 35:14; 49:24; 49:24

Exodus

7:19; 15:5; 15:16; 15:16; 17:12; 20:25; 21:18; 24:12; 25:7; 25:7; 25:7; 28:9; 28:11; 31:5; 31:18; 34:1; 34:4; 34:4; 35:9; 35:9; 35:9; 35:27; 35:27; 35:33; 39:6

Leviticus

14:40; 14:42; 14:43; 14:45; 19:36; 20:2; 20:27; 24:23; 26:1

Numbers

14:10; 15:35; 15:36; 35:17; 35:23

Deuteronomy

4:13; 4:28; 5:19; 8:9; 9:9; 9:10; 9:11; 10:1; 10:3; 13:11; 17:5; 21:21; 22:21; 22:24; 25:13; 27:2; 27:4; 27:5; 27:6; 27:8; 28:36; 28:64; 29:16

Joshua

4:3; 4:5; 4:6; 4:7; 4:8; 4:9; 4:20; 4:21; 7:25; 7:25; 7:26; 8:29; 8:31; 8:32; 10:11; 10:11; 10:18; 10:27; 15:6; 18:17; 24:26; 24:27

Judges

20:16

1 Samuel

6:14; 6:15; 6:18; 7:12; 17:40; 17:40; 17:49; 17:50; 20:19; 20:19; 20:41; 20:41; 25:37

2 Samuel

5:11; 5:11; 12:30; 14:26; 16:6; 16:13; 18:17

1 Kings

1:9; 5:17; 5:17; 6:7; 7:9; 7:10; 7:11; 10:2; 10:27; 12:18; 15:22; 18:31; 18:32; 18:38; 21:13

2 Kings

3:19; 3:25; 3:25; 12:13; 12:13; 12:13; 16:17; 19:18; 21:13; 22:6; 22:6; 23:15

1 Chronicles

22:2; 22:2; 22:15; 22:15; 29:2; 29:2; 29:2; 29:2

2 Chronicles

1:15; 10:18; 24:21; 26:14; 26:15; 34:11

Nehemiah

4:2; 4:3; 9:11

Job

6:12; 28:2; 28:3; 38:6; 38:30; 41:16

Psalms

118:22; 118:22

Proverbs

11:1; 16:11; 17:8; 20:10; 20:23; 27:3

Isaiah

8:14; 14:19; 27:9; 28:16; 30:30; 34:11; 37:19; 54:12

Jeremiah

3:9; 51:26

Ezekiel

1:26; 10:1; 11:19; 13:11; 13:11; 13:18; 16:40; 20:32; 23:47; 28:14; 28:16; 36:26; 38:22; 40:42

Amos

7:7; 7:8

Micah

6:11

Habakkuk

2:11; 2:19

Zechariah

3:9; 4:7; 4:10; 5:8; 9:16

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H68 matches the Hebrew אֶבֶן ('eḇen),
which occurs 273 times in 239 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 2:12–Num 15:36)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the shoham stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - Ya`akov rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22 - then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was great.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - They said, We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - It happened, when Ya`akov saw Rachel the daughter of Lavan, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Lavan, his mother's brother, that Ya`akov went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Lavan his mother's brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - Ya`akov took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - Ya`akov said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:14 - Ya`akov set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink-offering on it, and poured oil on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24 - But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Ya`akov, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Yisra'el),
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Tell Aharon, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Mitzrayim, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Mitzrayim, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5 - The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:16 - Terror and dread falls on them. By the greatness of your arm they are as still as a stone; Until your people pass over, LORD, Until the people pass over who you have purchased.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:12 - But Moshe's hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aharon and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side. His hands were steady until sunset.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - "If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:12 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:7 - shoham stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the breastplate.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:9 - You shall take two shoham stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Yisra'el:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:11 - With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shall you engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Yisra'el: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:12 - You shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Yisra'el: and Aharon shall bear their names before the LORD on his two shoulders for a memorial.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:17 - You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of odem, pitdah, and bareket shall be the first row;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Yisra'el, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:5 - and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - He gave to Moshe, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God's finger.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - The LORD said to Moshe, "Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moshe rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:9 - shoham stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the breastplate.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:27 - The rulers brought the shoham stones, and the stones to be set, for the efod and for the breastplate;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:6 - They worked the shoham stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Yisra'el.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:7 - He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the efod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Yisra'el, as the LORD commanded Moshe.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:10 - They set in it four rows of stones. A row of odem, pitdah, and bareket was the first row;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - The stones were according to the names of the children of Yisra'el, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - then the Kohen shall command that they take out the stones in which is the plague, and cast them into an unclean place outside of the city:
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42 - They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:43 - "If the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken out the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it was plastered;
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - He shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the house's mortar. He shall carry them out of the city into an unclean place.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:36 - Just balances, just weights, a just efah, and a just hin, shall you have. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Mitzrayim.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Yisra'el, 'Anyone of the children of Yisra'el, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Yisra'el, who gives any of his seed to Molekh; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:27 - "'A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones; their blood shall be upon them.'"
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - Moshe spoke to the children of Yisra'el; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Yisra'el did as the LORD commanded Moshe.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - You shall make you no idols, neither shall you rear you up an engraved image, or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. The glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the children of Yisra'el.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - The LORD said to Moshe, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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