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Lexicon :: Strong's G3037 - lithos

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λίθος
Transliteration
lithos (Key)
Pronunciation
lee'-thos
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:268,534

Strong’s Definitions

λίθος líthos, lee'-thos; apparently a primary word; a stone (literally or figuratively):—(mill-, stumbling-)stone.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's G3037 in the following manner: stone (49x), one stone (4x), another (4x), stumbling stone (with G4348) (2x), mill stone (with G3457) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's G3037 in the following manner: stone (49x), one stone (4x), another (4x), stumbling stone (with G4348) (2x), mill stone (with G3457) (1x).

  1. a stone

    1. of small stones

    2. of building stones

    3. metaph. of Christ

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
λίθος líthos, lee'-thos; apparently a primary word; a stone (literally or figuratively):—(mill-, stumbling-)stone.
STRONGS G3037:
λίθος, λίθου, ὁ, the Sept. for אֶבֶן (from Homer down); a stone: of small stones, Matthew 4:6; Matthew 7:9; Luke 3:8; 4:(Luke 4:3),Luke 4:11; Luke 11:11; 22:41; John 8:7; plural, Matthew 3:9; Matthew 4:3; Mark 5:5; Luke 3:8; Luke 19:40; John 8:59; John 10:31; of a large stone, Matthew 27:60, 66; Matthew 28:2; Mark 15:46; Mark 16:3; Luke 24:2; John 11:38f, 41; John 20:1; of building stones, Matthew 21:42, 44 (T omits; L WH Tr marginal reading brackets the verse); Matthew 24:2; Mark 12:10; Mark 13:1; Luke 19:44; Luke 20:17; Luke 21:5; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:7; metaphorically of Christ: λίθος ἀκρογωνιαῖος (which see), ἐκλεκτός (cf. 2 Esdr. 5:8), ἔντιμος, 1 Peter 2:6 (Isaiah 28:16); ζῶν (see ζάω, II. b.), 1 Peter 2:4; λίθος προσκόμματος, one whose words, acts, end, men (so stumble at) take such offence at, that they reject him and thus bring upon themselves ruin, 1 Peter 2:8 (7); Romans 9:33; of Christians: λίθοι ζῶντες, living stones (see ζάω, as above), of which the temple of God is built, 1 Peter 2:5; of the truths with which, as with building materials, a teacher builds Christians up in wisdom, λίθοι τίμιοι, costly stones, 1 Corinthians 3:12. λίθος μυλικός, Mark 9:42 R G; Luke 17:2 L T Tr WH, cf. Revelation 18:21. of precious stones, gems: λίθος τίμιος, Revelation 17:4; Revelation 18:12, 16; Revelation 21:11, 19 (2 Samuel 12:30; 1 Kings 10:2, 11); ἰάσπις, Revelation 4:3; ἐνδεδυμένοι λίθον (for R G T λίνον) καθαρόν, Revelation 15:6 L Tr text WH (Ezekiel 28:13 πάντα (or πᾶν) λίθον χρηστόν ἐνδέδεσαι; (see WH. Introduction at the passage cited)); but (against the reading λίθον) (cf. Scrivener, Plain Introduction etc., p. 658). Special stones cut in a certain form: stone tablets (engraved with letters), 2 Corinthians 3:7; statues of idols, Acts 17:29 (Deuteronomy 4:28; Ezekiel 20:32).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
4:28
2 Samuel
12:30
1 Kings
10:2; 10:11
Isaiah
28:16
Ezekiel
20:32; 28:13
Matthew
3:9; 4:3; 4:6; 7:9; 21:42; 21:44; 24:2; 27:60; 27:66; 28:2
Mark
5:5; 9:42; 12:10; 13:1; 15:46; 16:3
Luke
3:8; 3:8; 4; 4:3; 4:11; 11:11; 17:2; 19:40; 19:44; 20:17; 21:5; 22:41; 24:2
John
8:7; 8:59; 10:31; 11:38; 11:41; 20:1
Acts
4:11; 17:29
Romans
9:33
1 Corinthians
3:12
2 Corinthians
3:7
1 Peter
2:4; 2:5; 2:6; 2:7; 2:8
Revelation
4:3; 15:6; 17:4; 18:12; 18:16; 18:21; 21:11; 21:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3037 matches the Greek λίθος (lithos),
which occurs 60 times in 55 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 3:9 - “and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:3 - Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 4:6 - and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written:

‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’
and,

‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 7:9 - “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:42 - Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

‘The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.
This was the LORD’s doing,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’ ?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 21:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:44 - “And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 24:2 - And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:60

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:60 - and laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:66

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:66 - So they went and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone and setting the guard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:2 - And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door,[fn] and sat on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 5:5 - And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 9:42

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 9:42 - “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 12:10 - “Have you not even read this Scripture:

‘The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:1 - Then as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 13:2 - And Jesus answered and said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 15:46

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:46 - Then he bought fine linen, took Him down, and wrapped Him in the linen. And he laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:3 - And they said among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 16:4 - But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away—for it was very large.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 3:8 - “Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:3 - And the devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 4:11 - “and,

‘In their hands they shall bear you up,
Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 11:11 - “If a son asks for bread[fn] from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:40 - But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 19:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 19:44 - “and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:17 - Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written:

‘The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone’?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:18 - “Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:5 - Then, as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and donations, He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 21:6 - “These things which you see—the days will come in which not one stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:41 - And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 24:2 - But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:7 - So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up[fn] and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 8:59

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:59 - Then they took up stones to throw at Him; but Jesus hid Himself and went out of the temple,[fn] going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 10:31 - Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:38 - Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:39 - Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:41 - Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.[fn] And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 20:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 20:1 - Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:11 - “This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:29 - “Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 9:32

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:32 - Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law.[fn] For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 9:33 - As it is written:

“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense,
And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 3:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 3:12 - Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Co 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 3:7 - But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:4 - Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:5 - you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:6 - Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,

“Behold, I lay in Zion
A chief cornerstone, elect, precious,
And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:7 - Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient,[fn]

“The stone which the builders rejected
Has become the chief cornerstone,”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:8 - and

“A stone of stumbling
And a rock of offense.”[fn]
They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 4:3 - And He who sat there was[fn] like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:4 - The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.[fn]

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