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Stones
Featured studies
3 results- StudyPrecious StonesA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyA Royal PriesthoodThe living-stones catena of 1 Peter 2:4-10: three stone texts in six verses, the Exodus 19 charter applied to the church, and what a priesthood of believers actually offers.
- Study1 Peter: the Study GuideA living hope through undeserved suffering: sojourners of the Dispersion, a royal priesthood of living stones, the Suffering Servant's steps to follow, the spirits in prison, and the Chief…
Verses
320 results- VerseJob 24:2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
- VerseJohn 10:31At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.
- VersePsalms 118:22The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
- Verse1 Kings 7:11Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
- VerseExodus 25:7and onyx stones and gemstones to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.
Places
2 results- PlaceGilgalIsrael's first Canaan camp where the stones were set and the reproach rolled away (Josh 4-5); later a corrupted shrine the prophets name with Bethel (Amos 4:4; Hos 4:15).
- PlaceThe Valley of ElahThe battlefield between Socoh and Azekah where the armies faced each other across the brook from which David took five smooth stones.
Words (Strong's)
9 results- WordH7275 רָגַם · râgam (Hebrew)to cast together (stones), i.e. to lapidate. The Hebrew word stands 16 times in the original text.
- WordG3036 λιθοβολέω · lithoboléō (Greek)to throw stones, i.e. lapidate. The Greek word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordH1486 גּוֹרָל · gôwrâl (Hebrew)properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose). The Hebrew word stands 78 times in the original text.
- WordH70 אֹבֶן · ʼôben (Hebrew)a pair of stones (only dual). The Hebrew word stands 2 times in the original text.
- WordH2505 חָלַק · châlaq (Hebrew)to be smooth (figuratively). The Hebrew word stands 65 times in the original text.
Topics
1 resultProphecies
3 results- ProphecyTemple Stones Thrown DownThe temple would be so thoroughly destroyed that not one stone would remain on another.
- ProphecyBabylon's Stones Not Taken for BuildingJeremiah predicted that Babylon's massive stone masonry—the materials of Nebuchadnezzar's grand city—would never be recycled as building materials for other structures, an…
- ProphecyTyre's Debris Cast Into the SeaEzekiel predicted Tyre's stones, timbers, and even its dust would be cast into the sea—a strange, specific detail given the mainland city was not itself coastal but adjacent to…
Voices
6 results- VoiceAbba PoemenPoemen is the Greek word for shepherd, and the name stuck to him. He was born in Egypt late in the fourth century, one of seven brothers who all left the world together for the…
- VoicePolycarp of SmyrnaPolycarp was bishop of Smyrna, a port city on the Aegean coast of Asia Minor and one of the seven churches addressed in Revelation. He was born around AD 69 and burned at the…
- VoiceEpiphanius of SalamisEpiphanius was born about 315 near Eleutheropolis in Palestine, in a region where Jews, Samaritans, Christians and half a dozen sects lived on top of one another. He went to…
- VoiceMartin of BragaMartin was born around 515 or 520 in Pannonia, the Roman province along the middle Danube — roughly modern Hungary. He travelled east as a young man, spent time in Palestine…
- VoiceGregory of NazianzusGregory was born about 329 at Arianzus, near the town of Nazianzus in Cappadocia. His father, also Gregory, had belonged to an odd Jewish-pagan sect before his wife Nonna…
Apocrypha (study resources)
36 results- Study resource1 Maccabees 4:43Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 4:47Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;
- Study resourceSirach 32:20Go not in a way wherein thou mayest fall, and stumble not among the stones.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 5:47Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
- Study resourceTobit 13:17And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir.
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H7275רָגַם râgam — to cast together (stones), i.e. to lapidateG3036λιθοβολέω lithoboléō — to throw stones, i.e.
lapidateH1486גּוֹרָל gôwrâl — properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose)H70אֹבֶן ʼôben — a pair of stones (only dual)H2505חָלַק châlaq — to be smooth (figuratively)H3600כִּיר kîyr — a cooking range (consisting of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set)