Thing
Brick
Human-made Things in the Bible
The brick was a building block made of clay in a mold and either dried in the sun or hardened in an oven.
How it was used
Bricks were used as a building material, especially in places where stone or wood was scarce.
In the Bible
The Hebrew and Greek words for it, and every verse where each is used
לְבֵנָה lvenah · 9 verses
πλίνθος plinthos · 1 verse
Also in Builders
Sources
Plants and Trees in the Bible, Animals in the Bible and Human-made Things in the Bible © United Bible Societies, 2025 (adapted from Each According to its Kind: Plants and Trees in the Bible by Robert Koops, All Creatures Great and Small: Living Things in the Bible by Edward R. Hope, and The Works of Their Hands: Man-made Things in the Bible by Ray Pritz), CC BY-SA 4.0; adapted for eRhema