אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶרʼEben hâ-ʻÊzer
Eben-ha-Ezer, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: eh'-ben haw-e'-zer · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H72
Meanings
a stone (large or small)
2. stone, as material (Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 34:1)
3. precious stones (2 Samuel 12:30; 1 Kings 10:2; Genesis 2:12)
4. stones containing metal, = ore (Deuteronomy 8:9; Job 28:2; Job 28:3)
5. a weight (Proverbs 27:3; Proverbs 16:11; 2 Samuel 14:26)
6. plummet (Isaiah 34:11; 2 Kings 21:13; Amos 7:7)
7. hail, objects like stones (Joshua 10:11; Isaiah 30:30; Ezekiel 13:11)
8. in simile (Exodus 15:5; Nehemiah 9:11; Exodus 15:16)
9. In topographic terms (Joshua 15:6; Joshua 18:17; 1 Samuel 5:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 4:1 And Samuel’s words went out to all the people of Israel. At that time Israel was at war with the Philistines. The Israelite army was camped near Ebenezer, and the Philistines were at Aphek.
- 1 Samuel 5:1 After the Philistines captured the Ark of God, they took it from the battleground at Ebenezer to the town of Ashdod.
- 1 Samuel 7:12 Samuel then took a large stone and placed it between the towns of Mizpah and Jeshanah. He named it Ebenezer (which means “the stone of help”), for he said, “Up to this point the Lord has helped us!”
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).