Dict: easton - Stone

Stone @ Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events kjv@Genesis:28:18; kjv@Joshua:24:26-27; kjv@1Samuel:7:12, etc.). They were gathered out of cultivated fields kjv@Isaiah:5:2; comp. kjv@2Kings:3:19). This word is also used figuratively of believers ( kjv@1Peter:2:4-5), and of the Messiah kjv@Psalms:118:22; kjv@Isaiah:28:16; kjv@Matthew:21:42; kjv@Acts:4:11, etc.). In kjv@Daniel:2:45 it refers also to the Messiah. He is there described as "cut out of the mountain." (
See ROCK.) A "heart of stone" denotes great insensibility ( kjv@1Samuel:25:37). Stones were set up to commemorate remarkable events, as by Jacob at Bethel kjv@Genesis:28:18), at Padan-aram (35:4), and on the occasion of parting with Laban (31:45-47); by Joshua at the place on the banks of the Jordan where the people first "lodged" after crossing the river kjv@Joshua:6:8), and also in "the midst of Jordan," where he erected another set of twelve stones (4:1-9); and by Samuel at "Ebenezer" ( kjv@1Samuel:7:12).

Stones, Precious @ Frequently referred to (kjvKings:10:2; kjv@2Chronicals:3:6 kjv@2Chronicals:9:10; kjv@Revelation:18:16 kjv@Revelation:21:19). There are about twenty different names of such stones in the Bible. They are figuratively introduced to denote value, beauty, durability (Cant. kjv@5:14; Isaiah:54:11-12; kjv@Lamentations:4:7).