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λίθινος

líthinos · G3035 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. stone, made out of stone

    (Derivative of λίθος ‘stone,’) Pertaining to being made of or consisting of stone

    Examples

    John 2:6 Now there were six stone waterpots standing there for the Jewish custom of purification, containing two or three measures each.

    2 Corinthians 3:3 revealing yourselves, that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

    Revelation 9:20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands so as not to worship demons and the idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
אֶבֶן ʼeben · H68 · stone (as a substance), stone (as an object)
Greek λίθινος (stony/made of stone) is the adjectival form corresponding to Hebrew אֶבֶן (stone) as the nominal base, representing the standard Greek rendering of the Hebrew substantive in adjectival contexts describing stone composition.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Stone, made out of stone2.25
λίθινος describes something made of stone. John 2:6 recounts that at the wedding in Cana “there were six stone waterpots standing there for the Jewish custom of purification,” the λίθιναι naming these vessels fashioned from stone.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

λίθος líthos · G3037 · stone · 59×λιθάζω litházō · G3034 · to stone to death · 8×λιθοβολέω lithoboléō · G3036 · to stone to death · 8×λίθινοςlíthinos · G3035καταλιθάζω katalitházō · G2642 · to stone to death · 1×λιθόστρωτος lithóstrōtos · G3038 · stone-strewed, i.e. a tessellated mosaic on which the Roman tribunal was placed · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λιθινη, λιθινον (λίθος); from Pindar down; of stone: Jn 2:6; 2 Cor 3:3; Rev 9:20.
λιθινη, λιθινον (λίθος); from Pindar down; of stone: Jn 2:6; 2 Cor 3:3; Rev 9:20.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Earth, Mud, Sand, Rock3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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