Word

לְבֵנָה

lᵉbênâh · H3843 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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A word for 3 things

Incense altarAltars34 verses
Pavement, The PavementCourtyard, court13 verses
BrickBuilders10 verses

Meanings

brick

Block made of clay in a mold and either dried in the sun or hardened in an oven; used as a building material, especially in places where stone or wood was scarce

Examples
Genesis 11:3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
Exodus 1:14 and they made their lives bitter with hard labor in mortar and bricks and at all kinds of labor in the field, all their labors which they violently had them perform as slaves.
Exodus 5:7 “You are no longer to give the people straw to make bricks as previously; have them go and gather straw for themselves.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

סַפִּירsapphire 1
כֶםyour 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1
נָפַלto fall 1

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 3 groups

לָבַןto become white 2
לָקַחto take, to receive 1
עָשָׂהto do, to make 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מִןfrom 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
בin/on/with 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

מַעֲשֶׂהwork, deed 1
מַתְכֹנֶתformula, proportion 1
תֹּכֶןnumber 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Constructions001003002: This word denotes a brick or tile, a building material, so it belongs among construction terms.

Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

לָבַן lâban · H3835 · to become white, to become pure · 8×לָבָן lâbân · H3836 · white · 29×לְבוֹנָה lᵉbôwnâh · H3828 · frankincense · 21×לְבֵנָהlᵉbênâh · H3843לְבָנָה lᵉbânâh · H3842 · moon · 3×מַלְבֵּן malbên · H4404 · brick mold, brick kiln, brick pavement · 3×לִבְנֶה libneh · H3839 · white poplar, styrax tree · 2×לִבְנָה libnâh · H3840 · paved · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3843. lebenah לְבֵנָה noun feminine brick, tile (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לְּבִינְתָּא ;…

H3843. lebenah
לְבֵנָה noun feminine brick, tile (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לְּבִינְתָּא ; Zinjirli לבן (?) DHMSendsch.37. 59; Assyrian libittu; Arabic , , , , (loan-words according to Frä4f.); according to Thes and most from whiteness of clay, or light colour of sun-baked bricks; so NöZMG xi,1886, 735 LagBN 139; > others regard as Assyrian loan-word VOJi. 22ff.; in Assyrian a derivative from labânu, throw down, prostrate, is sought DlPr. 93f.(compare HWB 369)); — ׳ל Gen 11:3; Eze 4:1; construct לִבְנַת Exo 24:10; plural לְבֵנִים Gen 11:3 Gen 11:7t.; suffix מִלִּבְנֵיכֶם Exo 5:19; —
1 brick, as building-material, Gen 11:3 (singular collective; elsewhere plural) Gen 11:3; Exo 1:14; straw used in making Exo 5:7, compare Exo 5:8; Exo 5:16; Exo 5:18; Exo 5:19; Isa 9:9 (figurative; as inferior to גָּזִית hewn stone); incense burnt on Isa 65:3 ( = roof-tiles ? compare Che Di).
2 = tile, on which plan of city could be engraved (חקק) Eze 4:1.
3 = pavement, Exo 24:10 (compare Di).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Constructions12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0