אֶבֶן
ʼeben · eh'-ben
a stone
Lexicon
Derivation: from the root of H1129 (בָּנָה) through the meaning to build;
a stone
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [phrase] carbuncle, [phrase] mason, [phrase] plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › the house, what is within › the seed, life continuing
Strength, the leader of the house, what is within of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אֶבֶן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
273 occurrences · 273 OT · 0 NT · 124 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- stones57 · 27%
- stone26 · 13%
- of stone19 · 9%
- of stones12 · 6%
- him with stones11 · 5%
- a stone10 · 5%
- the stones9 · 4%
- the stone8 · 4%
- and stone7 · 3%
- them with stones6 · 3%
- divers weights6 · 3%
- and stones5 · 2%
- and the stones4 · 2%
- as a stone3 · 1%
- weight3 · 1%
- away the stones3 · 1%
- of the stones3 · 1%
- and great hailstones2 · 1%
- the stony2 · 1%
- thy stones2 · 1%
- as stones2 · 1%
- to the stone2 · 1%
- these stones2 · 1%
- weights2 · 1%
- in stone2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.