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Lexicon :: Strong's G3037 - lithos

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λίθος
Transliteration
lithos (Key)
Pronunciation
lee'-thos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:268,534

Strong’s Definitions

λίθος líthos, lee'-thos; apparently a primary word; a stone (literally or figuratively):—(mill-, stumbling-)stone.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's G3037 in the following manner: stone (49x), one stone (4x), another (4x), stumbling stone (with G4348) (2x), mill stone (with G3457) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's G3037 in the following manner: stone (49x), one stone (4x), another (4x), stumbling stone (with G4348) (2x), mill stone (with G3457) (1x).

  1. a stone

    1. of small stones

    2. of building stones

    3. metaph. of Christ

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λίθος líthos, lee'-thos; apparently a primary word; a stone (literally or figuratively):—(mill-, stumbling-)stone.
STRONGS G3037:
λίθος, λίθου, ὁ, the Sept. for אֶבֶן (from Homer down); a stone: of small stones, Matthew 4:6; Matthew 7:9; Luke 3:8; 4:(Luke 4:3),Luke 4:11; Luke 11:11; 22:41; John 8:7; plural, Matthew 3:9; Matthew 4:3; Mark 5:5; Luke 3:8; Luke 19:40; John 8:59; John 10:31; of a large stone, Matthew 27:60, 66; Matthew 28:2; Mark 15:46; Mark 16:3; Luke 24:2; John 11:38f, 41; John 20:1; of building stones, Matthew 21:42, 44 (T omits; L WH Tr marginal reading brackets the verse); Matthew 24:2; Mark 12:10; Mark 13:1; Luke 19:44; Luke 20:17; Luke 21:5; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7; metaphorically of Christ: λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος (which see), ἐκλεκτός (cf. 2 Esdr. 5:8), ἔντιμος, 1 Peter 2:6 (Isaiah 28:16); ζῶν (see ζάω, II. b.), 1 Peter 2:4; λίθος προσκόμματος, one whose words, acts, end, men (so stumble at) take such offence at, that they reject him and thus bring upon themselves ruin, 1 Peter 2:8 (7); Romans 9:33; of Christians: λίθοι ζῶντες, living stones (see ζάω, as above), of which the temple of God is built, 1 Peter 2:5; of the truths with which, as with building materials, a teacher builds Christians up in wisdom, λίθοι τίμιοι, costly stones, 1 Corinthians 3:12. λίθος μυλικός, Mark 9:42 R G; Luke 17:2 L T Tr WH, cf. Revelation 18:21. of precious stones, gems: λίθος τίμιος, Revelation 17:4; Revelation 18:12, 16; Revelation 21:11, 19 (2 Samuel 12:30; 1 Kings 10:2, 11); ἰάσπις, Revelation 4:3; ἐνδεδυμένοι λίθον (for R G T λίνον) καθαρόν, Revelation 15:6 L Tr text WH (Ezekiel 28:13 πάντα (or πᾶν) λίθον χρηστόν ἐνδέδεσαι; (see WH. Introduction at the passage cited)); but (against the reading λίθον) (cf. Scrivener, Plain Introduction etc., p. 658). Special stones cut in a certain form: stone tablets (engraved with letters), 2 Corinthians 3:7; statues of idols, Acts 17:29 (Deuteronomy 4:28; Ezekiel 20:32).
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
4:28
2 Samuel
12:30
1 Kings
10:2; 10:11
Isaiah
28:16
Ezekiel
20:32; 28:13
Matthew
3:9; 4:3; 4:6; 7:9; 21:42; 21:44; 24:2; 27:60; 27:66; 28:2
Mark
5:5; 9:42; 12:10; 13:1; 15:46; 16:3
Luke
3:8; 3:8; 4; 4:3; 4:11; 11:11; 17:2; 19:40; 19:44; 20:17; 21:5; 22:41; 24:2
John
8:7; 8:59; 10:31; 11:38; 11:41; 20:1
Acts
4:11; 17:29
Romans
9:33
1 Corinthians
3:12
2 Corinthians
3:7
1 Peter
2:4; 2:5; 2:6; 2:7; 2:8
Revelation
4:3; 15:6; 17:4; 18:12; 18:16; 18:21; 21:11; 21:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3037 matches the Greek λίθος (lithos),
which occurs 255 times in 231 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 5 (Gen 2:12–Deu 13:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - And the gold of that land is good, there also is carbuncle and emerald.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone [fn]he had laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:22 - And this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be to me a house of God; and of all whatsoever thou shalt give me, I will tithe a tenth for thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:2 - And he looks, and behold! a well in the plain; and there were there three flocks of sheep resting at it, for out of that well they watered the flocks, but there was a great stone at the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:3 - And there were all the flocks gathered, and they used to roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, and water the flocks, and set the stone again in its place on the mouth of the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - And they said, We shall not be able, until all the shepherds be gathered together, and they shall roll away the stone from the mouth of the well, then we will water the flocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - 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 came and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:45 - And Jacob having taken a stone, set it up for a pillar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:46 - And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they gathered stones and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap; and Laban said to him, This heap witnesses between me and thee to-day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - And the Lord said to Moses, Say to thy brother Aaron, Take thy rod in thy hand, and stretch forth thy hand over the waters of Egypt, and over their rivers, and over their canals, and over their ponds, and over all their standing water, and it shall become blood: and there was blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:5 - He covered them with the sea: they sank to the depth like a stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 17:12 - But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat upon it; and Aaron and Or supported his hands one on this side and the other on that, and the hands of Moses were supported till the going down of the sun.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:13 - A hand shall not touch it, for every one that touches shall be stoned with stones or shot through with a dart, whether beast or whether man, it shall not live: when the voices and trumpets and cloud depart from off the mountain, they shall come up on the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:25 - And if thou wilt make to me an altar of stones, thou shalt not build them hewn stones; for thou hast lifted up thy tool upon them, and they are defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:18 - And if two men revile each other and smite the one the other with a stone or his fist, and he die not, but be laid upon his bed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:28 - And if a bull gore a man or woman and [fn]they die, the bull shall be stoned with stones, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall be clear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:4 - And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and set up twelve stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:7 - and sardius stones, and stones for the carved work of the [fn]breast-plate, and the full-length robe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:9 - And thou shalt take the two stones, the stones of emerald, and thou shalt grave on them the names of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:10 - Six names on the first stone, and the other six names on the second stone, according to their births.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:11 - It shall be the work of the stone-engraver's art; as the graving of a seal thou shalt engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:12 - And thou shalt put the two stones on the shoulders of the shoulder-piece: they are memorial-stones for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel before the Lord on his two shoulders, a memorial for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:17 - And thou shalt interweave with it a texture of four rows of stone; there shall be a row of stones, a sardius, a topaz, an emerald, the first row.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - And let the stones of the names of the children of Israel be twelve according to their names, engravings as of seals: let them be for the twelve tribes each according to the name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:9 - and sardine stones, and stones for engraving for the [fn]shoulder-piece and full-length robe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:27 - And the rulers brought the emerald stones, and the stones for setting in the ephod, and the oracle,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:33 - and to work in stone, and to fashion the wood, and to work in every work of wisdom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:6 - (LXX 36:13) and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:7 - (LXX 36:14) and he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial of the children of Israel, as the Lord appointed Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:10 - (LXX 36:17) And there was interwoven with it a woven work of four rows of stones, a series of stones, the first row, a sardius and topaz and emerald;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - (LXX 36:21) And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names [fn]like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - then the priest shall give orders, and they shall take away the stones in which the plague is, and shall cast them out of the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:42 - And they shall take other scraped stones, and put them in the place of the former stones, and they shall take other plaster and plaster the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:43 - And if the plague should return again, and break out in the house after they have taken away the stones and after the house is scraped, and after it has been plastered,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - And they shall take down the house, and its timbers and its stones, and they shall carry out all the mortar without the city into an unclean place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - Thou shalt also say to the children of Israel, If there shall be any of the children of Israel, or of those who have become proselytes in Israel, who shall give of his seed to Moloch, let him be surely put to death; the nation upon the land shall stone him with stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:27 - And as for a man or woman whosoever of them shall have in them a divining spirit, or be an enchanter, let them both die the death: ye shall stone them with stones, they are guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:16 - And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:23 - And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, and they brought him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - I am the Lord your God: ye shall not make to yourselves gods made with hands, or graven; neither shall ye rear up a pillar for yourselves, neither shall ye set up a stone for an object in your land to worship it: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - And all the congregation bade stone them with stones; and the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud on the tabernacle of witness to all the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:35 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Let the man be by all means put to death: do ye all the congregation, stone him with stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:36 - And all the congregation brought him forth out of the camp; and all the congregation stoned him with stones outside the camp, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:17 - And if he should smite him with a stone thrown from his hand, whereby a man may die, and he thus die, he is a murderer; let the murderer by all means be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:23 - or smite him with any stone, whereby a man may die, unawares, and it should fall upon him, and he should die, but he was not his enemy, nor sought to hurt him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - And ye shall there serve other gods, the works of the hands of men, wood and stones, which [fn]cannot see, nor can they hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:9 - a land on which thou shalt not eat thy bread with poverty, and thou shalt not want any thing upon it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou shalt dig brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:10 - (LXX 13:11) And they shall stone him with stones, and he shall die, because he sought to draw thee away from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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