'Foundation' in the Bible

And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:

All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.

In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.