Lithazo denotes stoning or an attempt, threat, or experience of being stoned in hostile action.

The occurrences consistently concern stoning as hostile violence: people seek or intend to do it, carry it out, fear being subjected to it, or report having endured it. Active forms describe those seeking or performing the action, while passive forms describe those exposed to it.

1. Stoning directed against a person · dominant

   In John 10:31 the active subjunctive occurs after people pick up stones with the stated purpose of acting against him; in John 10:32 and John 10:33 present active forms occur in the exchange about whether they are going to stone him. John 11:8 similarly recalls that the Jews were seeking this action against him, while Acts 14:19 presents an aorist active participle before the crowd drags Paul from the city.

   John 10:31John 10:32John 10:33John 11:8Acts 14:19
2. Being subjected to stoning · common

   In Acts 5:26 the aorist passive subjunctive expresses the officers' fear that the people might be stoned. In 2 Corinthians 11:25 the first-person aorist passive is part of a report of suffering, and Hebrews 11:37 uses a third-person plural aorist passive among abuses endured by a group.

   Acts 5:262 Corinthians 11:25Hebrews 11:37

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB repeatedly uses forms of “stone,” including “to stone,” “stoning,” “were stoned,” and “once I was stoned.” These renderings confirm the verse-level action rather than establish separate lexical meanings.