אֶבֶןʼeben

stone

Pronunciation: eh'-ben · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H69

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Ezra 5:8 “The king should know that we went to the construction site of the Temple of the great God in the province of Judah. It is being rebuilt with specially prepared stones, and timber is being laid in its walls. The work is going forward with great energy and success.
  • Ezra 6:4 Every three layers of specially prepared stones will be topped by a layer of timber. All expenses will be paid by the royal treasury.
  • Daniel 2:34 As you watched, a rock was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands. It struck the feet of iron and clay, smashing them to bits.
  • Daniel 2:35 The whole statue was crushed into small pieces of iron, clay, bronze, silver, and gold. Then the wind blew them away without a trace, like chaff on a threshing floor. But the rock that knocked the statue down became a great mountain that covered the whole earth.
  • Daniel 2:45 That is the meaning of the rock cut from the mountain, though not by human hands, that crushed to pieces the statue of iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God was showing the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its meaning is certain.”
  • Daniel 5:4 While they drank from them they praised their idols made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).