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.
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Brick
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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;
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לְבֵנָה
lᵉbênâh · leb-ay-naw'
6 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
a brick (from the whiteness of the clay)
Strong's KJV usage: (altar of) brick, tile.
Strong's first: Genesis 11:3Strong's last: Isaiah 65:3
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lâban · law-ban'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to be (or become) white; to make bricks
Strong's KJV usage: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
Strong's first: Exodus 5:14Strong's last: Exodus 5:14
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H3843
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 them serve, was with rigour.
H3843
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
H3835
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
H3843
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.
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brick
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 mass of earth, chiefly clay, first moistened and made fine by grinding or treading, then formed into a long square in a mold, dried and baked or burnt in a kiln; used in buildings and walls.
1. A loaf shaped like a brick
BRICK, verb transitive To lay or pave with bricks.
1. 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). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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