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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 5 / 5 (Jer 2:27–Zec 12:3)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their trouble
They will say, ‘Arise and save us.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:9 - “So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:9 - “Take large stones in your hand, and hide them in the sight of the men of Judah, in the clay in the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:10 - “and say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:26 - They shall not take from you a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for a foundation,
But you shall be desolate forever,” says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:63 - “Now it shall be, when you have finished reading this book, that you shall tie a stone to it and throw it out into the Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:53 - They silenced[fn] my life in the pit
And threw stones at me.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:1 - How the gold has become dim!
How changed the fine gold!
The stones of the sanctuary are scattered
At the head of every street.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:26 - And above the firmament over their heads was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:1 - And I looked, and there in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubim, there appeared something like a sapphire stone, having the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:19 - “Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them,[fn] and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:11 - “say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:13 - Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I will cause a stormy wind to break forth in My fury; and there shall be a flooding rain in My anger, and great hailstones in fury to consume it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:40 - “They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.’
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:47 - ‘The assembly shall stone them with stones and execute them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:12 - ‘They will plunder your riches and pillage your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; they will lay your stones, your timber, and your soil in the midst of the water.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:22 - “The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were your merchants. They traded for your wares the choicest spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:13 - You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:14 - “You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:16 - “By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the fiery stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:26 - “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42 - There were also four tables of hewn stone for the burnt offering, one cubit and a half long, one cubit and a half wide, and one cubit high; on these they laid the instruments with which they slaughtered the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:38 - “But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses; and a god which his fathers did not know he shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:6 - “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will uncover her foundations.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 6:11 - Shall I count pure those with the wicked scales,
And with the bag of deceitful weights?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:11 - For the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:19 - Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’
To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
Yet in it there is no breath at all.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:15 - ‘And now, carefully consider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the LORD
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:9 - For behold, the stone
That I have laid before Joshua:
Upon the stone are seven eyes.
Behold, I will engrave its inscription,’
Says the LORD of hosts,
‘And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:7 - ‘Who are you, O great mountain?
Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
And he shall bring forth the capstone
With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 4:10 - For who has despised the day of small things?
For these seven rejoice to see
The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
They are the eyes of the LORD,
Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:4 - “I will send out the curse,” says the LORD of hosts;
“It shall enter the house of the thief
And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name.
It shall remain in the midst of his house
And consume it, with its timber and stones.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:8 - then he said, “This is Wickedness!” And he thrust her down into the basket, and threw the lead cover[fn] over its mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:15 - The LORD of hosts will defend them;
They shall devour and subdue with slingstones.
They shall drink and roar as if with wine;
They shall be filled with blood like basins,
Like the corners of the altar.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:16 - The LORD their God will save them in that day,
As the flock of His people.
For they shall be like the jewels of a crown,
Lifted like a banner over His land—
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:3 - “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.

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