Brick
מַלְבֵּןStrong’s H4404malben (mal-ben)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Malben is the Hebrew word usually translated “brick mold” and “brick-terrace”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.”
Meaning
- Brick mold, brick kiln, quadranglebrick mould, brick kiln · quadrangle
How it's translated
- in the brick mold 1
- in the brick-terrace 1
- a brick mold 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Nahum 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 43:9Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;
- Nahum 3:14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
Hebrew dictionary
מַלְבֵּן malben · brick
1) brick mold, brick kiln, quadrangle 1a) brick mould, brick kiln 1b) quadrangle
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.