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, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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Bricks
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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.
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לְבֵנָה
lᵉbênâh · leb-ay-naw'
4 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: Exodus 5:8Strong's last: Isaiah 9:10
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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, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
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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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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 task.
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The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
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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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