Stones and Rocks

(John 1:42 KJV) And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

stone (st½n)

n. 1. a . Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock.

b . Such concreted matter of a particular type. Often used in combination: sandstone; soapstone.

2. A small piece of rock.

3. Rock or a piece of rock shaped or finished for a particular purpose, especially:

a . A piece of rock that is used in construction: a coping stone; a paving stone.

b . A gravestone or tombstone.

c . A grindstone, millstone, or whetstone.

d . A milestone or boundary.

4. A gem or precious stone.

5. Something, such as a hailstone, resembling a stone in shape or hardness.

Botany 6. The hard covering enclosing the seed in certain fruits, such as the cherry, plum, or peach.

Pathology 7. A mineral concretion in an organ, such as the kidney or gallbladder, or other body part; a calculus.

pl. 8. stone

Abbr. st. A unit of weight in Great Britain, 14 pounds (6.4 kilograms).

Printing 9. A table with a smooth surface on which page forms are composed.

adj. 1. Relating to or made of stone: a stone wall.

2. Made of stoneware or earthenware.

adv. 1. Used as an intensive. Often used in combination: stone cold; standing stone still.

v. tr. stoned ston·ing stones

1. To hurl or throw stones at, especially to kill with stones.

2. To remove the stones or pits from.

3. To furnish, fit, pave, or line with stones.

4. To rub on or with a stone in order to polish or sharpen.

Obsolete 5. To make hard or indifferent.

[ Middle English from Old English st³n; See stei- in Indo-European Roots.] ston"er n.

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(Mat 16:18 KJV) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

(1 Cor 10:4 KJV) And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

rock¹ (r¼k)

n. 1. Relatively hard, naturally formed mineral or petrified matter; stone.

2. a . A relatively small piece or fragment of such material.

b . A relatively large body of such material, as a cliff or peak.

3. A naturally formed aggregate of mineral matter constituting a significant part of the earth's crust.

4. One that is similar to or suggestive of a mass of stone in stability, firmness, or dependability: The family has been his rock during this difficult time.

Slang 5. rocks Money.

Slang 6. A large gem, especially a diamond.

Slang 7. Crack cocaine.

8. a . A varicolored stick candy.

b . Rock candy.

Idioms: between a rock and a hard place

1. Confronted with equally unpleasant alternatives and few or no opportunities to evade or circumvent them.

on the rocks

1. In a state of difficulty, destruction, or ruin: Their marriage is on the rocks.

2. Without money; bankrupt: Our accountant says the business is on the rocks.

3. Served over ice cubes: Scotch on the rocks.

[ Middle English from Old North French roque from Vulgar Latin *rocca]

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A STONE, A ROCK,

Stones are just small rocks.

Who is the Rock? Not Peter he is just a stone, (Cephas) Jesus the Christ is the Rock. It is not upon Peter that the church is built but upon Jesus.

Rocks have there place in our every day life's, they are used for many useful tools, etc.

Stone used for a knife

(Exo 4:25 KJV) Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.

Stone used for a marker

(Gen 31:45 KJV) And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

Stone used as an altar

(Exo 20:25 KJV) And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Stone used as a seat

(Exo 17:12 KJV) But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Stones wrote upon

Moses goes up into the mountain

(Exo 24:12 KJV) And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exo 24:12: Verses 12-18. A cloud covered the mount six days; a token of God's special presence there. Moses was sure that he who called him up would protect him. Even those glorious attributes of God which are most terrible to the wicked, the saints with humble reverence rejoice in. And through faith in the atoning Sacrifice, we hope for greater honour than Moses ever enjoyed on earth. Now we see through a glass darkly, but when he shall appear, then face to face. This vision of God will continue with equal, if not increasing brightness of joy; not for a few days only, but through eternity.

Stones used as weapons

(1 Sam 17:49 KJV) And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.

(Deu 13:10 KJV) And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Stones used to repair house's

(2 Ki 22:6 KJV) Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

Some stones are of beauty

(Exo 24:10 KJV) And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

(Gen 2:12 KJV) And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Stone used as a seal

(John 20:1 KJV) The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

All stones are not of the same quality

(Amos 5:11 KJV) Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

So then we see that all tones are not the same

(Deu 32:31 KJV) For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Indeed the world does not understand or recognize the rock of our salvation is not the same, it is hardened rock not soft sand stone.

Rock as a shield

(2 Sam 22:3 KJV) The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

We are allowed to hide in the Rock

(Exo 33:22 KJV) And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

WE are to stand upon our rock, above the storms and above the mud of this world

(Exo 33:21 KJV) And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

(Ezek 26:4 KJV) And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

For our Rock is our foundation:

(Mat 7:24 KJV) Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

(Mat 16:18 KJV) And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

When we stand on the rock we can not fall

(Mat 7:25 KJV) And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Not an image of God should we be are build but God wants the real thing.

(Lev 26:1 KJV) Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

God wants us to drink from the spiritual Rock

(1 Cor 10:4 KJV) And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Which will lead to a heart change

(2 Cor 3:3 KJV) Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

So indeed let us be Cephas's and let us be good building stones that we build a fitfully joined church not out of one stone but on one rock with many stones. Take a Cephas and keep it in your purse on your desk in your pocket to remind you that we are but Gods stones to be used to Build.