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אֶבֶן

eben

eh'-ben

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼeben

a stone

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a stone

Rendered in the KJV as

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

  • 273
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 27 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 124
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 273 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 124

  • אֶ֣בֶן15
  • אַבְנֵי־13
  • אֶ֖בֶן10
  • אֲבָנִ֣ים9
  • אֶ֥בֶן8
  • אַבְנֵ֣י8
  • אָ֑בֶן7
  • אֲבָנִ֔ים7
  • הָאֶ֙בֶן֙6
  • וְאֶ֣בֶן6
  • אֶ֛בֶן4
  • אֶ֔בֶן4

and 112 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 63

  • stones40
  • a stone23
  • the stone20
  • the stones18
  • stone16
  • stones of15
  • with the stones14
  • and stones of10
  • [the] stones of9
  • and stone9
  • stone[s]9
  • stones its8

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 35

  • noun · feminine singular51
  • noun · feminine plural29
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular20
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)20
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular20
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural18
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural17
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)14
  • noun · masculine plural12
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)9
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsa · 51
  • HNcfpa · 29
  • HC/Ncfsa · 20
  • HNcfpc · 20
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 20
  • HRd/Ncfpa · 18
  • HTd/Ncfpa · 17
  • HNcfsc · 14
  • HNcmpa · 12
  • HNcmpc · 9
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 7
  • HC/Ncmpc · 6

All 273, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Exodus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis15 occurrences
Exodus33 occurrences
Leviticus10 occurrences
Numbers5 occurrences
Deuteronomy25 occurrences
Joshua22 occurrences
Judges3 occurrences
1 Samuel10 occurrences
2 Samuel7 occurrences
1 Kings24 occurrences
2 Kings8 occurrences
1 Chronicles10 occurrences
2 Chronicles14 occurrences
Nehemiah3 occurrences
Job11 occurrences
Psalms3 occurrences
Proverbs11 occurrences
Ecclesiastes3 occurrences
Isaiah14 occurrences
Jeremiah7 occurrences
Lamentations2 occurrences
Ezekiel17 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Habakkuk2 occurrences
Haggai2 occurrences
Zechariah9 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אֶבֶן

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).