Strong H683 sensesאֶ֫בֶן

stone · stone: weight · (Zoheleth) Stone

Transliteration
'eben
Pronunciation
eh'-ben

The 3 senses of Strong H68

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H68 appears in 239 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. stoneH68G: stone227 verses · 27 books
  2. stone: weightH68H: weight7 verses · 6 books
  3. (Zoheleth) StoneH68ISpring near Jerusalem; associated with Adonijah's and David's kingships1 verse · 1 Kings

General definition

From the root of H1129 through the {meaning} to build;
a stone: - + {carbuncle} + {mason} + {plummet} {[chalk-} {hail-} {bead-} sling-] stone ({-ny}) (divers) weight (-s).

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • stone219
  • weight10
  • hailstone5
  • stony2
  • carbuncle1
  • headstone1
  • mason1
  • plummet1
  • slingstones1

First verses

  1. Genesis 2:12
    And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
  2. Genesis 11:3
    And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
  3. Genesis 28:11
    And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
  4. Genesis 28:18
    And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
  5. Genesis 28:22
    And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
  6. Genesis 29:2
    And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
  7. Genesis 29:3
    And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
  8. Genesis 29:8
    And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
  9. Genesis 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 went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
  10. Genesis 31:45
    And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.
  11. Genesis 31:46
    And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.
  12. Genesis 35:14
    And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
  13. Genesis 49:24
    But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
  14. Exodus 7:19
    And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
  15. Exodus 15:5
    The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.
  16. Exodus 15:16
    Fear and dread shall fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone; till thy people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass over, which thou hast purchased.
  17. Exodus 17:12
    But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
  18. Exodus 20:25
    And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
  19. Exodus 21:18
    And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
  20. Exodus 24:12
    And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.