Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3843
לְבֵנָה
lebenahleb-ay-naw'
brick
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lᵉbênâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3843is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3843
a brick (from the whiteness of the clay)
The King James renders it: (altar of) brick, tile.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
lebenah is rendered "brick". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
Genesis 11:3לְבֵנִ֔ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bricks3
- the bricks3
- a brick1
- and bricks1
- and in bricks1
- from bricks your1
- the brick1
- the pavement of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַלְּבֵנָה֙1
- הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים1
- הַלְּבֵנִ֜ים1
- הַלְּבֵנִֽים׃1
- וּבִלְבֵנִ֔ים1
- וּלְבֵנִ֛ים1
- לְבֵנָ֔ה1
- לְבֵנִ֔ים1
- לְבֵנִ֖ים1
- לְבֵנִ֥ים1
- לִבְנַ֣ת1
- מִלִּבְנֵיכֶ֖ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmpa
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HTd/Ncfsa
Genesis
two uses
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- לְבֵנִ֔יםlevenimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bricks
- הַלְּבֵנָה֙halevenahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the brick
Exodus
seven uses
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
- וּבִלְבֵנִ֔יםuvilvenimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and in bricks
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- הַלְּבֵנִ֖יםhalevenimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bricks
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
- הַלְּבֵנִ֜יםhalevenimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bricks
No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
- וּלְבֵנִ֛יםulevenimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and bricks
Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
- לְבֵנִ֖יםlevenimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bricks
The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
- מִלִּבְנֵיכֶ֖םmilivneikhempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: from bricks your
and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.
- לִבְנַ֣תlivnatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the pavement of
Isaiah
two uses
“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- לְבֵנִ֥יםlevenimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bricks
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
- הַלְּבֵנִֽים׃halevenimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bricks
Ezekiel
one use
“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.
- לְבֵנָ֔הlevenahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a brick
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.