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Lexicon :: Strong's H3843 - lᵊḇēnâ

Aa
לְבֵנָה
Transliteration
lᵊḇēnâ
Pronunciation
leb-ay-naw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1074g

Strong’s Definitions

לְבֵנָה lᵉbênâh, leb-ay-naw'; from H3835; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay):—(altar of) brick, tile.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's H3843 in the following manner: brick (10x), tile (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's H3843 in the following manner: brick (10x), tile (1x).

  1. tile, brick

    1. brick

    2. tile

    3. pavement

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לְבֵנָה lᵉbênâh, leb-ay-naw'; from H3835; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay):—(altar of) brick, tile.
STRONGS H3843: Abbreviations
† לְבֵנָה noun feminine brick, tile (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לְּבִינְתָּא bdb052704; Zinjirli לבן (?) DHMSendsch.37. 59; Assyrian libittu; Arabic bdb052705, bdb052706, bdb052707, bdb052708, bdb052709 (loan-words according to Frä4f.); according to Thes and most from whiteness of clay, or light colour of sun-baked bricks; so NöZMG xi,1886,735 LagBN 139; > others regard as Assyrian loan-word VOJi. 22ff.; in Assyrian a derivative from labânu, throw down, prostrate, is sought DlPr. 93f.(compare HWB 369)); — ל׳ Genesis 11:3; Ezekiel 4:1; construct לִבְנַת [H3840 Exodus 24:10]; plural לְבֵנִים Genesis 11:3 + 7 times; suffix מִלִּבְנֵיכֶם Exodus 5:19; —
1. brick, as building-material, Genesis 11:3 (singular collective; elsewhere plural) Genesis 11:3; Exodus 1:14; straw used in making Exodus 5:7, compare Exodus 5:8; Exodus 5:16; Exodus 5:18; Exodus 5:19; Isaiah 9:9 (figurative; as inferior to גָּזִית hewn stone); incense burnt on Isaiah 65:3 (= roof-tiles ? compare Che Di).
2. = tile, on which plan of city could be engraved (חקק) Ezekiel 4:1.
3. = pavement, [H3840 Exodus 24:10] (compare Di).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:3; 11:3; 11:3; 11:3

Exodus

1:14; 5:7; 5:8; 5:16; 5:18; 5:19; 5:19

Isaiah

9:9; 65:3

Ezekiel

4:1; 4:1

H3843

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3843 matches the Hebrew לְבֵנָה (lᵊḇēnâ),
which occurs 11 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:14 - And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7 - Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:8 - But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:16 - They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:18 - Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:19 - Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:10 - The bricks have come down, but we will put up buildings of cut stone in their place: the sycamores are cut down, but they will be changed to cedars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 - A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:1 - And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem.
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