Bible Dictionary: Stony

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

2. (superl.) Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

3. (superl.) Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate; perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified; as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.

Greek

4075. petrodes -- rock-like
... rock-like. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: petrodes Phonetic Spelling:
(pet-ro'-dace) Short Definition: rocky, stony Definition: rocky, stony. ... stony. ...
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858. aphelotes -- simplicity
... 858 (derived from 1 "not" and , "stony ground") -- properly, without rocks (the
opposite of , "rocky land"), ie (a level plain); (figuratively) what is ...
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4073. petra -- a (large mass of) rock
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: petra Phonetic Spelling: (pet'-ra)
Short Definition: rock Definition: a rock, ledge, cliff, cave, stony ground. ...
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3035. lithinos -- of stone
... Word Origin from lithos Definition of stone NASB Word Usage stone (3). of stone.
From lithos; stony, ie Made of stone -- of stone. see GREEK lithos. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

71. Abanah -- a river near Damascus
... Abana. Perhaps feminine of 'eben; stony; Abanah, a river near Damascus -- Abana.
Compare 'Amanah. see HEBREW 'eben. see HEBREW 'Amanah. 70, 71. Abanah. 72 ...
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5553. sela -- a crag, cliff
... Rock (1), rock (39), rocks (4), rocky (1), Sela (1). ragged rock, stony,
strong hold. From an unused root meaning to be lofty; a ...
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709. Argob -- Argob
... Argob From the same as regeb; stony; Argob, a district of Palestine -- Argob.
see HEBREW regeb. 708, 709. Argob. 709a . Strong's Numbers.
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2788. charer -- a parched place
... Word Origin from charar Definition a parched place NASB Word Usage stony wastes
(1). parched place. From charar; arid -- parched place. see HEBREW charar. ...
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Library

The Grace by which the Stony Heart is Removed is not Preceded by ...
... A Treatise on grace and free will, Chapter 30."The Grace by Which the Stony Heart
is Removed is Not Preceded by Good Deserts, But by Evil Ones. ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 30 the grace by which.htm

The Stony Heart Removed
... The Stony Heart Removed. A Sermon (No.456). ... "I will take away the stony heart out
of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.""Ezekiel 36:26. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/the stony heart removed.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19, Etc. , Where the Lord ...
... Yesterday we read of that sower, who when he scattered seed, "some fell by the way
side," [2507] which the birds picked up; "some in stony places," which dried ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxiii on the words.htm

"A Terrible Sight"
... The shrieks intermixed were scarcely to be endured. But her stony eyes could not
weep. ... I am a warning to you. Break, break, poor stony hearts! ...
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Now the Species is not Always Overstepped, for Things are Often ...
... A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of ...
/.../augustine/on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 48 now the species.htm

The New Heart
... at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "A new heart also will I give you, and
a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony heart out of ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the new heart.htm

The Fourth Rule of Tichonius.
... A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I
will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 34 the fourth rule of.htm

The Poets
... One phrase which occurs often in the hymns of the Wesleys is particularly unfortunate;
we mean that awkward ellipsis the stony': ... The stony from their hearts. ...
/.../the hymns of methodism in their literary relations/chapter iii the poets.htm

The Holy Spirit of Promise
... "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will
take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh ...
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The Wisdom of the Ages
... And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang
up, because it had no depth of earth: but when the sun was up, it was ...
/.../mark/jesus of nazareth a biography/chapter iv the wisdom of.htm

Thesaurus

Stony (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or
stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground ...
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Argob (6 Occurrences)
...Stony heap, an "island," as it has been called, of rock about 30 miles by 20, rising
20 or 30 feet above the table-land of Bashan; a region of crags and chasms ...
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Stoning (16 Occurrences)

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Territory (140 Occurrences)
... no "scientific frontier." On the South lay the Negeb, and beyond that the almost
waterless wilderness, a barrier consisting of a series of stony hills running ...
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Onycha (1 Occurrence)
... closes the mouth of the shell. The operculum, which may be horny or stony,
is absent in some species. The horny opercula when burned ...
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Overthrown (44 Occurrences)
... (WEB ASV). Psalms 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places,
they shall hear my words; for they are sweet. (KJV WBS). ...
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Likewise (149 Occurrences)
... Mark 4:16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when
they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; (KJV WBS). ...
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Gladness (83 Occurrences)
... Mark 4:16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when
they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; (KJV WBS). ...
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Wool (34 Occurrences)
... The fleeces are gathered in bales and carried to a washing-place, which is usually
one of the stony river beds, with but a small stream flowing through it ...
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Irrigation
... the trenches. In stony soil the breach in the canal leading to a particular
plot is opened and closed with a hoe. Any obstruction ...
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Bible Concordance

Stony (8 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
(KJV WBS)

Matthew 13:20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
(KJV WBS)

Mark 4:5 And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
(KJV WBS)

Mark 4:16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;
(KJV WBS)

Psalms 141:6 When their judges are overthrown in stony places, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
(See NAS)

Ezekiel 11:19 I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Ezekiel 36:26 I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Subtopics

Stony

Related Terms

Argob (6 Occurrences)

Stoning (16 Occurrences)

Territory (140 Occurrences)

Onycha (1 Occurrence)

Overthrown (44 Occurrences)

Likewise (149 Occurrences)

Gladness (83 Occurrences)

Wool (34 Occurrences)

Irrigation