Topic
Stone, Stones
21 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 29:2ISBE
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.
- Exodus 35:9ISBE
And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.
- Leviticus 21:20ISBE
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
- Deuteronomy 23:1ISBE
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
- Joshua 10:11ISBE
And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of…
- 1 Samuel 7:12ISBE
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
- 1 Samuel 17:40ISBE
And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
- 1 Samuel 25:37ISBE
But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
- 2 Samuel 17:13ISBE
Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
- Job 22:24ISBE
Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- Job 40:17ISBE
He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
- Job 41:30ISBE
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
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- Psalms 118:22 ISBE
- Psalms 137:9 ISBE
- Psalms 141:6 ISBE
- Proverbs 27:3 ISBE
- Ezekiel 11:19 ISBE
- Habakkuk 2:19 ISBE
- Zechariah 12:3 ISBE
- John 1:42 ISBE
- Revelation 2:17 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 22 references
ston, stonz:
1. Hebrew and Greek Words:
(1) Chiefly 'ebhen, and lithos; but also, occurring rarely, 'eshekh (Le 21:20); tsur (Job 22:24), usually "rock"; tseror (2Sa 17:13); petros (Joh 1:42); psephos (Re 2:17). For cela`, usually "cliff," "crag," "rock," the King James Version, in Ps 137:9; 141:6, has "stone," but the Revised Version (British and American) "rock." For the King James Version "stones," cheres (Job 41:30), the Revised Version (British and American) has "potsherds."
See SELA.
2. Literal Usage:
The word is used of great stones (Ge 29:2); of small stones (1Sa 17:40); of stones set up as memorials (1Sa 7:12, "Eben-ezer," "stone of help"); of precious stones (Ex 35:9, etc.); of hailstones (Jos 10:11).
3. Figurative Usage: Of hardness: "I will take the stony heart out of their flesh" (Eze 11:19); of one smitten: "(Nabal's) heart died within him, and became as a stone" (1Sa 25:37); of weight: "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty" (Pr 27:3); of dumbness: "Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise!" (Hab 2:19); of Jerusalem: "I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples" (Zec 12:3); of the corner-stone as a figure of high position:
"The stone which the builders rejected
Is become the head of the corner" (Ps 118:22).
(2) Used also anatomically of the testicles (Le 21:20; De 23:1; Job 40:17, pachadh, the Revised Version (British and American) "thighs").
Alfred Ely Day
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.