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title: לְבֵנָה — brick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לְבֵנָה (3843), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: brick. BDB 1906: n.f. brick, tile. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לְבֵנָה

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«לְבֵנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **brick** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 12 times · **Key:** 3843 · **BDB:** לְבֵנָה

### Glosses

bricks (7); a.brick (1); brick (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

brick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3843/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. brick, tile [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3843/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. brick, tile (NH id.; Aramaic לְבִינְתָּא, ܠܒܶܢܻܬܳܐ; Zinj. לבן (?) DHMSendsch. 37. 59; Assyrian libittu; Arabic لِبْنٌ, لَبِنٌ, لَبِنٌ, لِبْنَةٌ, لَبِنَةٌ (loan-words according to Frä4 f.); according to Thes and most from whiteness of clay, or light colour of sun-baked bricks; so NöZMG xl, 1886, 735 LagBN 139; \>others regard as Assyrian loan-word VOJ i, 22 ff.; in Assyrian a deriv. from labânu, throw down, prostrate, is sought DlPr 93f. (cf. HWB 369);—ל׳ Gn 11:3 Ez 4:1; cstr. לִבְנַת Ex 24:10; pl. לְבֵנִים Gn 11:3 + 7 times; sf. מִלִּבְנֵיכֶם Ex 5:19;— brick, as building-material, Gn 11:3 (sg. coll.; elsewhere pl.) v 3; Ex 1:14; straw used in making Ex 5:7, cf. v 8, 16, 18, 19; Is 9:9 (fig.; as inferior to גָּזִית hewn stone); incense burnt on Is 65:3 (= roof-tiles? cf. Che Di). = tile, on which plan of city could be engraved (חקק) Ez 4:1. = pavement, Ex 24:10 (cf. Di).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לְבֵנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3843/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 9:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.9/)

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לְבֵנִ֥ים נָפָ֖לוּ וְגָזִ֣ית נִבְנֶ֑ה שִׁקְמִ֣ים גֻּדָּ֔עוּ וַאֲרָזִ֖ים נַחֲלִֽיף׃

*Word for word:* bricks they.have.fallen and hewn.\[stone\] we.will.rebuild sycamores they.have.been.cut.down and cedars we.will.substitute

*JPS 1917:* 'The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but cedars will we put in their place.'

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[Exodus 5:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.18/)

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וְעַתָּה֙ לְכ֣וּ עִבְד֔וּ וְתֶ֖בֶן לֹא־יִנָּתֵ֣ן לָכֶ֑ם וְתֹ֥כֶן לְבֵנִ֖ים תִּתֵּֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* and now go work and straw not it.will.be.given to you and.\[the\] measurement of.bricks you.will.give

*JPS 1917:* Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.'

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