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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.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H69
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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 4 / 5 (2Ch 9:1–Isa 62:10)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:1 - And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: H68 and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:9 - And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: H68 neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:10 - And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. H68
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:27 - And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, H68 and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, H68 that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:6 - Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones H68 of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones H68 at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:14 - And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones. H68
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:15 - And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones H68 withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:27 - And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, H68 and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:11 - Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, H68 and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:2 - And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones H68 out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 4:3 - Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone H68 wall.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:11 - And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone H68 into the mighty waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:23 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones H68 of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:12 - Is my strength the strength of stones? H68 or is my flesh of brass?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:17 - His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones. H68
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:19 - The waters wear the stones: H68 thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:2 - Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone. H68
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:3 - He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones H68 of darkness, and the shadow of death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:6 - The stones H68 of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:6 - Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone H68 thereof;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - The waters are hid as with a stone, H68 and the face of the deep is frozen.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:24 - His heart is as firm as a stone; H68 yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:28 - The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones H68 are turned with him into stubble.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:12 - They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. H68
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:14 - For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, H68 and favour the dust thereof.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:22 - The stone H68 which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:1 - A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight H68 is his delight.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:11 - A just weight and balance are the LORD'S: all the weights H68 of the bag are his work.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:8 - A gift is as a precious stone H68 in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:10 - Divers weights, H68 H68 and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:23 - Divers weights H68 H68 are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:31 - And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone H68 wall thereof was broken down.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:8 - As he that bindeth a stone H68 in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:27 - Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, H68 it will return upon him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:3 - A stone H68 is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 - A time to cast away stones, H68 and a time to gather stones H68 together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:9 - Whoso removeth stones H68 shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone H68 of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:19 - But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones H68 of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones H68 of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:16 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, H68 a tried stone, H68 a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:30 - And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. H68
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:11 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones H68 of emptiness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: H68 therefore they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:11 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones H68 with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:12 - And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, H68 and all thy borders of pleasant stones. H68
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:17 - For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones H68 iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 - Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; H68 lift up a standard for the people.

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