Lexicon :: Strong's G3037 - lithos

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.

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.

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.

“No hand may touch him;[fn] instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows and not live, whether animal or human. When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”

“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,

“When an ox[fn] gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

“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.

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

“the hangings of the courtyard, its posts and bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard;

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.

“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.”

“Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must be put to death; the whole community is to stone him. If he blasphemes the Name, he is to be put to death, whether the resident alien or the native.

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.”

“If anyone has in his hand a stone capable of causing death and strikes another person and he dies, the murderer must be put to death.

“or without looking drops a stone that could kill a person and he dies, but he was not his enemy and didn’t intend to harm him,

“There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

“a land where you will eat food without shortage, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and from whose hills you will mine copper.