Brick
לִבְנָהStrong’s H3843livnah (liv-nah)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Livnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “bricks”, “brick” and “from bricks your”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”
Meaning
- Tile, pavement, brick
How it's translated
- bricks 3
- the bricks 3
- brick 1
- and in bricks 1
- and bricks 1
- from bricks your 1
- pavement of 1
- a brick 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 7
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
- Exodus 5:16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.
- Exodus 5:18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
- Exodus 5:19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.
Hebrew dictionary
לִבְנָה livnah · brick
tile, pavement, brick A sub-meaning of le.ve.nah (לְבֵנָה "brick" H3843)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “brick” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BRICK, noun
[Latin imbrex, a gutter-tile, from imber, a shower, which is probably a compound, of which the last syllable is from whence.]
- A loaf shaped like a brick
All definitions and other forms of “brick”
BRICK, verb transitive
To lay or pave with bricks.
- To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on plaster, by smearing it with red ocher and making the joints with an edge-tool, filling them with fine plaster.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.