# H68 אֶבֶן

אֶבֶן (ʼeben), Strong’s H68: a stone KJV: [phrase] carbuncle, [phrase] mason, [phrase] plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)…. Occurs 273 times.

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*ʼeben* — a stone

KJV: [phrase] carbuncle, [phrase] mason, [phrase] plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)…

Derived from [בָּנָה bânâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H1129) (to build)

Occurs 273 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֶ֫בֶן 274 n.f. stone
- 1 in natural state
- 2 stone, as material
- 3 precious stone, gen. with modifying word
- 4 stone containing metal, = ore
- 5 a weight, as orig. stone
- 6 plummet
- 7 objects like stone
- 8 in sim. (mostly poet.) of sinking in water
- 9 In topogr. terms

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 2:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/2?v=12) — and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there.
- [Genesis 11:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=3) — They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…
- [Genesis 28:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=11) — He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the…
- [Genesis 28:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=18) — Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and…
- [Genesis 28:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=22) — then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give…
- [Genesis 29:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=2) — He looked, and saw a well in the field, and saw three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they…
- [Genesis 29:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=3) — There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the…
- [Genesis 29:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=8) — They said, “We can’t, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth. Then…
- [Genesis 29:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=10) — When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob…
- [Genesis 31:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=45) — Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.