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e.ven H68

אֶ֫בֶן (e.ven) means “stone” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אֶ֫בֶן Hebrew · H68 273 tagged occurrences in 239 verses

Pronunciation guide: eh'-ben Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0068G

אֶ֫בֶן · e.ven · stone

: stone 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

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TBESH · H0068H

אֶ֫בֶן · e.ven · stone: weight

: 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

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TBESH · H0068I

אֶ֫בֶן · e.ven · (Zoheleth) Stone

The sacred object, a memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines Combined with en ro.gel (זֹחֶ֫לֶת "Zoheleth" H2120) This name means stone (large or small), stone, as material

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from the root of H1129 (בָּנָה) through the meaning to build; a stone

KJV glosses: [phrase] carbuncle, [phrase] mason, [phrase] plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).

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How translators render H68

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
stones 62
stone 31
a stone 16
and stone 10
the stones 10
the stone 9
of stone 8
of stones 4
weights 4
and gemstones 3
as stones 3
him 3
vvv 3
and onyx stones 2
and the stone 2
gemstones 2
hailstones 2
of gemstones 2
of rocks 2
rock 2
to the stone 2
with stones 2
your stones 2
a cornerstone 1
a heavy stone 1
a rock 1
a rocky 1
against a stone 1
and a plumb line 1
and a stone 1
and cut them 1
and hail 1
and hailstones 1
and slabs 1
and slingstones 1
and some 1
and stones 1
and to a stone 1
and with the stones 1
another 1
as a stone 1
as stone 1
as well as onyx 1
by 1
cover 1
differing 1
for ore 1
from ore 1
her stones 1
i will send hailstones 1
instead of stone 1
its rocks 1
jewels 1
joshua and caleb 1
like a stone 1
like jewels 1
of dressed stone 1
one of the stones 1
one stone 1
precious stones 1
slingstones 1
some stones 1
standard 1
stones together 1
the capstone 1
the contaminated ones 1
the gems 1
the plumb line 1
the rock 1
the way a gem 1
the weights 1
them 1
these stones 1
to sling stones 1
turquoise 1
two differing weights 1
unequal weights 1
weight 1
whose rocks 1
with a stone 1
with its stones 1
with slingstones 1
with stones in place 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
stones 62
stone 27
of stone 19
a stone 12
of stones 12
him with stones 11
the stones 10
the stone 9
and stone 7
them with stones 6
and stones 5
and the stones 4
as a stone 3
as stones 3
away the stones 3
divers weights 3
of the stones 3
these stones 3
weight 3
and great hailstones 2
in stone 2
the stony 2
thy stones 2
to the stone 2
weights 2
against a stone 1
all the stones 1
all the weights 1
also and stone 1
and for stones 1
and hailstones 1
and masons 1
and these stones 1
and this stone 1
and to a stone 1
and with a stone 1
and with the stones 1
behold this stone 1
but for a stone 1
by the stone 1
for a foundation a stone 1
for behold the stone 1
for stone 1
for the stone 1
her with stones 1
his stone 1
in her stones 1
nor a stone 1
o great hailstones 1
of carbuncles 1
of land with stones 1
of thee a stone 1
of those stones 1
of you a stone 1
or with any stone 1
slingstones 1
that the stone 1
the headstone 1
the plummet 1
the weight 1
thee with stones 1
their stone 1
thence a stone 1
there upon the stones 1
there was no stone 1
thereof and the stone 1
thereof and the stones 1
they the stones 1
to the stones 1
upon a stone 1
upon the stones 1
whose stones 1
with a stone 1
with hailstones 1
with stones 1
with the stones 1
ye by these stones 1

Verses containing H68

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  1. Numbers 35:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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  2. Numbers 35:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

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  3. Deuteronomy 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

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  4. Deuteronomy 4:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

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  5. Deuteronomy 5:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

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  6. Deuteronomy 8:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    a land where you will eat food without scarcity, where you will lack nothing; a land whose rocks are iron and whose hills are ready to be mined for copper.

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  7. Deuteronomy 9:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

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  8. Deuteronomy 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.

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  9. Deuteronomy 9:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

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  10. Deuteronomy 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

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  11. Deuteronomy 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

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  12. Deuteronomy 13:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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    Source alternate reference: 13.11

  13. Deuteronomy 17:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

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  14. Deuteronomy 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

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  15. Deuteronomy 22:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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  16. Deuteronomy 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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  17. Deuteronomy 25:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.

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  18. Deuteronomy 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You must maintain accurate and honest weights and measures, so that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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  19. Deuteronomy 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.

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  20. Deuteronomy 27:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when you have crossed the Jordan, you are to set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and you are to coat them with plaster.

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  21. Deuteronomy 27:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

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  22. Deuteronomy 27:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

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  23. Deuteronomy 27:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”

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  24. Deuteronomy 28:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

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  25. Deuteronomy 28:64 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

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  26. Deuteronomy 29:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

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    Source alternate reference: 29.16

  27. Joshua 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

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  28. Joshua 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,

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  29. Joshua 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

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  30. Joshua 4:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

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  31. Joshua 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.

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  32. Joshua 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

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  33. Joshua 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

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  34. Joshua 4:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

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  35. Joshua 7:25 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

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  36. Joshua 7:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

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  37. Joshua 8:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

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  38. Joshua 8:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

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  39. Joshua 8:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

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  40. Joshua 10:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

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  41. Joshua 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and post men there to guard them.

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  42. Joshua 10:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

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  43. Joshua 15:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    went up to Beth-hoglah, proceeded north of Beth-arabah, and went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

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  44. Joshua 18:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From there it curved northward and proceeded to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth facing the Ascent of Adummim, and continued down to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

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  45. Joshua 24:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

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  46. Joshua 24:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”

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  47. Judges 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

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  48. Judges 9:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—

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  49. Judges 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.

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  50. 1 Samuel 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.

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