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Deuteronomy 25:15
“But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H68 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a stone
- Derivation
- from the root of H1129 (בָּנָה) through the meaning to build;
- KJV renderings
- [phrase] carbuncle, [phrase] mason, [phrase] plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-) stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
- Grammar
- אֶ֣בֶן — common noun, feminine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 273 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:12Genesis 11:3Genesis 28:11Genesis 28:18Genesis 28:22
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֶבֶן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.