ston, stonz:<\/p>\n
1. Hebrew and Greek Words:<\/p>\n
(1) Chiefly , ‘ebhen, and , lthos; but also, occurring rarely, , ‘eshekh (Lev 21:20); , cur (Job 22:24), usually rock; , ceror (2Sa 17:13); , petros (Joh 1:42); , psephos (Rev 2:17). For , sela, usually cliff, crag, rock, the King James Version, in Psa 137:9; Psa 141:6, has stone, but the Revised Version (British and American) rock. For the King James Version stones, , heres (Job 41:30), the Revised Version (British and American) has potsherds. See SELA.<\/p>\n
2. Literal Usage:<\/p>\n
The word is used of great stones (Gen 29:2); of small stones (1Sa 17:40); of stones set up as memorials (1Sa 7:12, Eben-ezer, stone of help); of precious stones (Exo 35:9, etc.); of hailstones (Jos 10:11).<\/p>\n
3. Figurative Usage:<\/p>\n
Of hardness: I will take the stony heart out of their flesh (Eze 11:19); of one smitten: (Nabal’s) heart died within him, and became as a stone (1Sa 25:37); of weight: A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty (Pro 27:3); of dumbness: Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! (Hab 2:19); of Jerusalem: I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples (Zec 12:3); of the corner-stone as a figure of high position:<\/p>\n
The stone which the builders rejected<\/p>\n
Is become the head of the corner (Psa 118:22).<\/p>\n
See FLINT; ROCK.<\/p>\n
(2) Used also anatomically of the testicles (Lev 21:20; Deu 23:1; Job 40:17, , pahadh, the Revised Version (British and American) thighs).<\/p>\n
Stone, Stones ston, stonz: 1. Hebrew and Greek Words: (1) Chiefly , ‘ebhen, and , lthos; but also, occurring rarely, , ‘eshekh (Lev 21:20); , cur (Job 22:24), usually rock; , ceror (2Sa 17:13); , petros (Joh 1:42); , psephos (Rev 2:17). For , sela, usually cliff, crag, rock, the King James Version, in Psa … Continue reading “Stone, Stones”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}