Strong H68H68Hאֶ֫בֶן
stone: weight
One of the 3 senses of Strong H68
- Transliteration
- 'eben
- Pronunciation
- eh'-ben
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Feminine)
Definition
: weight
1) stone (large or small)
1a) common stone (in natural state)
1b) stone, as material
1b1) of tablets
1b2) marble, hewn stones
1c) precious stones, stones of fire
1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon
1e) weight
1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal
1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice
1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines
1i) (simile)
1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness
1i2) strength, firmness, solidity
1i3) commonness
1j) (metaph)
1j1) petrified with terror
1j2) perverse, hard heart
1) stone (large or small)
1a) common stone (in natural state)
1b) stone, as material
1b1) of tablets
1b2) marble, hewn stones
1c) precious stones, stones of fire
1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon
1e) weight
1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal
1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice
1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines
1i) (simile)
1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness
1i2) strength, firmness, solidity
1i3) commonness
1j) (metaph)
1j1) petrified with terror
1j2) perverse, hard heart
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).
a stone: - + {carbuncle} + {mason} + {plummet} {[chalk-} {hail-} {bead-} sling-] stone ({-ny}) (divers) weight (-s).
In the Bible
Strong H68H appears in 7 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- weight7
First verses
- Leviticus 19:36Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 25:15But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
- 2 Samuel 14:26And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king’s weight.
- Proverbs 11:1A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
- Proverbs 16:11A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.
- Micah 6:11Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?
- Zechariah 5:8And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.