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title: לָבַן — make brick · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָבַן (lemma:לָבַן), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: make brick. BDB 1906: vb.denom. make brick. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָבַן

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«לָבַן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **make 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:** 3 times · **Key:** lemma:לָבַן · **BDB:** לָבַן

### Glosses

let.us.make.bricks (1); make.bricks (1); making.bricks (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

make brick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.denom. make brick [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. make brick (as Assyrian labânu from libittu DlHWB 370);— Impf. 1 pl. נִלְבְּנָה Gn 11:3 (c. acc. cogn.); Inf. cstr. לִלְבֹּן Ex 5:7 (c. acc. cogn.), v 14 (abs.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָבַן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Exodus 5:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.7/)

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לֹ֣א תֹאסִפ֞וּן לָתֵ֨ת תֶּ֧בֶן לָעָ֛ם לִלְבֹּ֥ן הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֑ם הֵ֚ם יֵֽלְכ֔וּ וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם תֶּֽבֶן׃

*Word for word:* not you will.repeat to give straw to the people to make.bricks the bricks as yesterday three.days.ago they let.them.go and they.will.gather for themselves straw

*JPS 1917:* 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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[Exodus 5:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.14/)

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וַיֻּכּ֗וּ שֹֽׁטְרֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֣מוּ עֲלֵהֶ֔ם נֹגְשֵׂ֥י פַרְעֹ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר מַדּ֡וּעַ לֹא֩ כִלִּיתֶ֨ם חָקְכֶ֤ם לִלְבֹּן֙ כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם גַּם־תְּמ֖וֹל גַּם־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.struck the.foremen of.the.people of.Israel whom they.had.appointed over them the.taskmasters of.Pharaoh (cmp) why? not have.you.completed portion your.prescribed by making.bricks as yesterday three.days.ago neither yesterday nor this day

*JPS 1917:* And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?'

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