Gematria of Stone
9 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “stone” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 474 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 9
- Occurrences
- 474
- Distinct values
- 8
The 9 Hebrew words rendered “stone”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
First appearance ·Exodus 17:6שמות יז:והַצּוּר
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
First appearance ·Numbers 20:8במדבר כ:חהַסֶּלַע
properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation or its contrary (as if a delapidation)
First appearance ·Exodus 8:22שמות ח:כביִסְקְלֻֽנוּ
a piece of pottery
First appearance ·Leviticus 6:21ויקרא ו:כאחֶרֶשׂ
to cast together (stones), i.e. to lapidate
First appearance ·Leviticus 20:2ויקרא כ:ביִרְגְּמֻהוּ
a testicle (as a lump)
First appearance ·Leviticus 21:20ויקרא כא:כאָֽשֶׁךְ
a testicle (as a cause of shame akin to fear)
First appearance ·Job 40:17איוב מ:יזפחדו
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of stone?
The Tanakh renders “stone” with 9 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: אבן = 53, צור = 296, סלע = 160, and 5 more.
How do you say stone in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 9 Hebrew words for “stone”; the most frequent are אבן (ʼeben), 281 times; צור (tsûwr), 77 times; סלע (çelaʻ), 59 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.