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# stony

«stony» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **full of stones or covered with stones** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stony, stonier, stoniest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stony means full of stones or covered with stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#m1)

2) Stony means hard like stone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#m2)

3) A stony look, face or silence is cold and shows no kind feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: "Stony heart" means a hard, stubborn heart that cannot feel or obey God. Interpretation: Tradition reads this as a promise that God will one day give Israel a soft, willing heart. Then people will want to keep his laws. In the primary lessons: In geography and nature lessons it describes ground, beaches and paths: «a stony beach», «stony soil». In stories a «stony stare» or «stony silence» tells the reader a person is angry, cold or unforgiving. Phrases: «stony ground», «stony silence», «stony-faced», «fall on stony ground» (an idea nobody accepts).

### examples

- And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh; (Prophets EZK.11.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x1)
- 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 flesh. (Prophets EZK.36.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x2)
- We walked along the stony beach in our sandals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x3)
- The farmer could not grow much in the stony field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x4)
- The path up the hill was steep and stony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x5)
- Mum gave me a stony look when I came home late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x6)
- There was a stony silence after the teacher asked who broke the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x7)
- The headteacher listened stony-faced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x8)
- My idea fell on stony ground; nobody liked it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x9)
- Plants with long roots can live in stony soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x10)
- While the donkeys galloped along the stony road, the Marionette fancied he heard a very quiet voice whispering to him: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/#x11)

### note

Spelled with -y after «stone» minus «e»: stone → stony (not «stoney», though that spelling is sometimes seen). Comparative stonier, superlative stoniest. «Stony» about a face is not about real stone; it is a figure of speech. «Stone-cold» and «stony broke» (UK, informal: with no money at all) are related phrases.

### In the corpora

- [Some asteroids are dark and rich in carbon, some are stony, and a few are mostly metal, like the asteroid Psyche.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/11/)
- [Not all deserts are hot or sandy: most are rocky or stony, and Antarctica is the largest desert of all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/2/)
- [Most deserts are rocky or stony rather than covered in sand dunes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stony» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/stony/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.