לְבֵנָה levenah
Hebrew word for “brick” · Strong’s H3843 · used 12 times in 11 verses
Meaning
1) tile, brick; 1a) brick; 1b) tile; 1c) pavement; Also spelled: liv.nah (לִבְנָה "brick" H3840)
How it is translated
Glosses given for levenah in context, with how often each is used:
- bricks 9
- brick 2
- pavement 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 5 (5), Genesis 11 (1), Exodus 1 (1), Exodus 24 (1), Isaiah 9 (1), Isaiah 65 (1), Ezekiel 4 (1)
Forms
- לבנים 3
- הלבנים 3
- הלבנה 1
- ובלבנים 1
- ולבנים 1
- מלבניכם 1
- לבנת 1
- לבנה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with levenah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- תֶּבֶן teven “straw” 3
- לָבֵן laven “to whiten” 2
- גָּרַע gara “to dimish” 2
- תְּמוֹל temol “yesterday” 2
- שִׁלְשֹׁם shilshom “three days ago” 2
- חֹמֶר chomer “clay” 2
- זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 2
- הֶם hem “them” 3
- עָבַד avad “to serve” 2
- הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 3
- הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 2
- רָאָה raah “to see” 2
Key verses
The verses using levenah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 11:3 — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- Exodus 1:14 — And 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…
- Exodus 5:7 — Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:8 — And 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,…
- Exodus 5:16 — There 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 5:18 — Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
- Exodus 5:19 — And 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…
- Exodus 24:10 — And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
- Isaiah 9:10 — The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
- Isaiah 65:3 — A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
- Ezekiel 4:1 — Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:
See all 11 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.