Strong G3037λίθος

stone

Transliteration
lithos
Pronunciation
lee'-thos
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Apparently a primary word; a stone (literally or figuratively): - (mill- stumbling-) stone.

Detailed definition

λίθος, -ου, ὁ
(and, in Att.., of precious stones, ἡ.) [in LXX for אֶבֶן, Gen.11:3, al.; λ. τίμιος, for פָּז, Psa.19:10 21:3, Pro.8:19, al.;]
a stone: Mat.4:6, al.; pl., Mat.3:9, al.; at the entrance of a tomb, Mat.27:60, 66 28:2, Mrk.15:46 16:3-4, Luk.24:2, Jhn.11:38, 32 11:41 20:1; λ. μυλικός, Luk.17:2, cf. Rev.18:21; of building stones, Mat.21:42, [44], Mat.24:2, Mrk.12:10 13:1-2, Luk.19:44 20:17-18 21:5-6 Act.4:11, 1Pe.2:7; metaphorically, of Christ, λ. ἀκρογωναῖος, ἐκλεκτός, ἔντιμος, 1Pe.2:6 (LXX); λ. ζῶν, 1Pe.2:4; προσκόμματος, 1Pe.2:8, Rom.9:33; of Christians, λ. ζῶντες, 1Pe.2:5; of precious stones, λ. τίμιος, Rev.17:4 18:12, 16 21:11, 19; ἴασπις, Rev.4:3; ἐνδεδυμένοι λ. καθαρόν, Rev.15:6 (λίνον, Rec., R, mg., see Swete, in l); metaphorically, λ. τίμιοι, 1Co.3:12; of the tables of the law, 2Co.3:7; of idols, Act.17:29
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In the Bible

Strong G3037 appears in 55 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • stone52
  • another4
  • a1
  • at1
  • millstone1

First verses

  1. Matthew 3:9
    And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  2. Matthew 4:3
    And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
  3. Matthew 4:6
    And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
  4. Matthew 7:9
    Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
  5. Matthew 21:42
    Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
  6. Matthew 21:44
    And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
  7. Matthew 24:2
    And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
  8. Matthew 27:60
    And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
  9. Matthew 27:66
    So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
  10. Matthew 28:2
    And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
  11. Mark 5:5
    And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
  12. Mark 9:42
    And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
  13. Mark 12:10
    And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
  14. Mark 13:1
    And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!
  15. Mark 13:2
    And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
  16. Mark 15:46
    And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
  17. Mark 16:3
    And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?
  18. Mark 16:4
    And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
  19. Luke 3:8
    Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
  20. Luke 4:3
    And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
λίθος [ῐ], ου,
o((see. below 11), stone, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.)]; especially of the stones thrown by warriors, τρηχὺς λ., λ. ὀκριόεις, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.308, 8.327)]; also, stonequoit, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.190; ἑλέσθαι.. ἐκ γαίας λίθον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 199.4)]; of building- stones, λίθοι βασιλικοί [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PSI” 4.423.28, “PCair.Zen.” 499.20 (both 3rd c.BC): proverbial, ἐν παντὶ γάρ τοι σκορπίος φρουρεῖ λίθῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 37)]; λίθον ἕψειν 'to lose one's labour', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 280)]; also of stupid persons, 'blockheads', λίθοι [Refs 6th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Nu.” 1202, compare 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 568, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 292d, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 9.656)]; λ. τις, ou) dou/lh [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.4)]; προσηγορεύθη διὰ τὸ μὴ φρονεῖν λ., of Niobe, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 101; ὥσπερ λίθον ζῆν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 494a {λιθοσπαδὴς})]; λίθῳ λαλεῖς proverbial of ἀναίσθητοι, [Refs (15th c.AD: Macarius Paroemiographus 5.61.)]
2 stone as a substance, opposed to wood, flesh, etc., ἐπεὶ οὔ σφι λ. χρὼς οὐδὲ σίδηρος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.510)]; λαοὺς δὲ λίθους ποίησε turned into stone, petrified,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (24.611, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 198c; so [νῆα] θεῖναι λ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.156)]; as an emblem of hard-heartedness, σοὶ δ᾽ αἰεὶ κραδίη στερεωτέρη ἐστὶ λίθοιο [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (23.103, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.18.)]
II λίθος, ἡ, twice in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.287, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.494, just like _masculine_, also in 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.26, 2nd c.BC: Bion Bucolicus “fragment” 1.2)]: later mostly of some special stone, as the magnet is called Μαγνῆτις λ. by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 567 (but ἡ λίθος simply in 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 11k, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 267a2, compare variant “de An.” 405a20))]; also Λυδία λ. by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 800 (but in 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 10 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus Λυδία λ.)] = touchstone); Ἡρακλεία λ. by [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 533d, 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 293)]; so of a touchstone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 486d)]; ἡ διαφανὴς λ. a piece of crystal used for a burning-glass, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 767, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 21)]; χυτὴ λ. was perhaps a kind of glass, and so an older name for ὕαλος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Epinicus Comicus 1.8 (the same thing as the ἀρτήματα λίθινα χυτά in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.69; compare τὴν ὕαλον.. ὅσα τε λίθων χυτὰ εἴδη καλεῖται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 61c))]; λ. = precious stone is feminine in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 99, “IG” 22.1421.92, 1460.21, but _masculine_ in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.44, etc.)]; in the sense of marble mostly masculine, λευκὸς λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 4.87 (simply λίθος 1.164), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 330 (λευκοὶ λ. is opposed to πέτρινοι λ. “Supp.epigram” 4.446.8 (from Didyma)))]; Πάριος λ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 4.81, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.57; Ταινάριος λ. 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.5.7)]; λ. Θάσιος, Αἰγύπτιος, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.18.6, etc.; κογχίτης [prev. author] 1.44.6; κογχυλιάτης 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.4.10; but Παρία λ. 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.38, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 13)]; compare λυχνίας, -ίτη; πώρινος λ. tufa, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.62.)]
II.2 collectively, πέφυκε λίθος.. ἄφθονος, ἐξ οὗ.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Vectigalibus” 1.4.)]
III grave-stone (feminine), [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 8.1.)]
IV at Athens, λίθος, ὁ, was a name for various blocks of stone used for rostra or platforms, as,
IV.1 the βῆμα (which see) of the Pnyx, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 683, “Pax” 680, “Ec.” 87.)]
IV.2 another in the ἀγορά used by the κήρυκες, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 8)]; probably the same as ὁ πρατὴρ λ., on which the auctioneer stood when selling slaves, etc., [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 3.78, compare 126.)]
IV.3 an altar in the ἀγορά, at which the Thesmothetae, arbitrators, and witnesses took their oaths, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Philochorus Historicus 65, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 54.26 (restored from 1st-2nd c.AD: Harpocratio Grammaticus see at {λίθος}), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ἀθηναίων Πολιτεία” 7.1, 55.5, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Solon” 25)]; compare λιθωμότης.
IV.4 two stones on which litigants stood in the Areopagus, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.28.5.)]
V piece on a draughtboard, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 82, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.18, compare γραμμή 111.1: hence pronoun, πάντα λίθον κινεῖν 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 5.63 (who explains it differently).)]
VI in Medicine texts, stone in the bladder, calculus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 519b19, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 4.55, +others)]
VII Δία λίθον ὀμνύναι, = Latin Jovem lapidem jurare, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.25.6.)]
VIII λίθοι χαλάζης hail- stones, [LXX (LXX.Josh.10.11.)]
IX λ. ὁ οὐ λ. the philosophers' stone, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Zosimus Epigrammaticus Alch. p.122 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]