King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3843
Transliteration: lebenah
Phonetic Spelling: (leb-ay-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: brick, tile
Meaning: brick, tile
Word Summary
lebenah: brick, tile
Original Word: לְבֵנָהTransliteration: lebenah
Phonetic Spelling: (leb-ay-naw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: brick, tile
Meaning: brick, tile
Strong's Concordance
altar of brick, tile From laban; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay) -- (altar of) brick, tile.
see HEBREW laban
Brown-Driver-Briggs
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 Genesis 11:3; Ezekiel 4:1; construct לִבְנַת Exodus 24:10; plural לְבֵנִים Genesis 11:3 7t.; suffix מִלִּבְנֵיכֶם Exodus 5:19; —
1 brick, as building-material, Genesis 11:3 (singular collective; elsewhere plural) 11:3; Exodus 1:14; straw used in making 5:7, compare 5:8; 5:16; 5:18; 5:19; Isaiah 9:9 (figurative; as inferior to גָּזִית hewn stone); incense burnt on 65:3 ( = roof-tiles ? compare Che Di).
2 = tile, on which plan of city could be engraved (חקק) Ezekiel 4:1.
3 = pavement, Exodus 24:10 (compare Di).