stone (large or small)

1. common stone (in natural state)

2. stone, as material

   1. of tablets

   2. marble, hewn stones

3. precious stones, stones of fire

4. stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon

5. weight

6. plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal

7. stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice

8. sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines

9. (simile)

   1. sinking in water, motionlessness

   2. strength, firmness, solidity

   3. commonness

10. (metaph)

    1. petrified with terror

    2. perverse, hard heart

if

1. conditional clauses

   1. of possible situations

   2. of impossible situations

2. oath contexts

   1. no, not

3. if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or

4. when, whenever

5. since

6. interrogative particle

7. but rather

to say, speak, utter

1. (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend

2. (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called

3. (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly

4. (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch

beside, by, near, nearness, joining, proximity

(BDB)

1. conjunction, proximity

2. beside, in proximity, contiguous to, from beside

(relative part.)

1. which, who

2. that which

(conj)

1. that (in obj clause)

2. when

3. since

4. as

5. conditional if

to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue

1. (Qal)

   1. to build, rebuild

   2. to build a house (ie, establish a family)

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be built

   2. to be rebuilt

   3. established (of restored exiles) (fig.)

   4. established (made permanent)

   5. to be built up (of childless wife becoming the mother of a family through the children of a concubine)

also, even, indeed, moreover, yea

1. also, moreover (giving emphasis)

2. neither, neither...nor (with negative)

3. even (for stress)

4. indeed, yea (introducing climax)

5. also (of correspondence or retribution)

6. but, yet, though (adversative)

7. even, yea, yea though (with 'when' in hypothetical case)

(TWOT) again, alike

they, these, the same, who

wall

Tobiah = "Jehovah is good"

1. head of a family who returned from exile with Zerubbabel but who were unable to prove their connection with Israel

2. the Ammonite who with Sanballat opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem

3. a Levite in the reign of Jehoshaphat

4. a chief of the returning exiles

to go up, ascend, climb

1. (Qal)

   1. to go up, ascend

   2. to meet, visit, follow, depart, withdraw, retreat

   3. to go up, come up (of animals)

   4. to spring up, grow, shoot forth (of vegetation)

   5. to go up, go up over, rise (of natural phenomenon)

   6. to come up (before God)

   7. to go up, go up over, extend (of boundary)

   8. to excel, be superior to

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be taken up, be brought up, be taken away

   2. to take oneself away

   3. to be exalted

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to bring up, cause to ascend or climb, cause to go up

   2. to bring up, bring against, take away

   3. to bring up, draw up, train

   4. to cause to ascend

   5. to rouse, stir up (mentally)

   6. to offer, bring up (of gifts)

   7. to exalt

   8. to cause to ascend, offer

4. (Hophal)

   1. to be carried away, be led up

   2. to be taken up into, be inserted in

   3. to be offered

5. (Hithpael) to lift oneself

Ammonite = see Ammon "tribal"

1. descendants of Ammon and inhabitants of Ammon

to break through or down or over, burst, breach

1. (Qal)

   1. to break or burst out (from womb or enclosure)

   2. to break through or down, make a breach in

   3. to break into

   4. to break open

   5. to break up, break in pieces

   6. to break out (violently) upon

   7. to break over (limits), increase

   8. to use violence

   9. to burst open

   10. to spread, distribute

2. (Niphal) to be broken through

3. (Pual) to be broken down

4. (Hithpael) to break away

fox, a burrower

1. fox

2. perhaps also jackal