Study it in the app“They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.”
They saidוַיֹּאמְרוּto one another,אִישׁ אֶל רֵעֵהוּ“Come,הָבָהlet us makeנִלְבְּנָהbricksלְבֵנִיםand burn themוְנִשְׂרְפָהthoroughly.”לִשְׂרֵפָהAndוַbrickהַלְּבֵנָהservedתְּהִיthemלָהֶםas stone,לְאָבֶןandוְbitumenהַחֵמָרservedהָיָהthemלָהֶםas mortar.לַחֹמֶר
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomru” appearseach
Literally "a man": any person; with "not", not a single person.
Where else “ish” appearsneighbor
The person living near, anyone one deals with.
Where else “ree” appearscome on
An invitation to act together: «come on!, let us!».
Where else “hava” appearsmake bricks
To mold clay and straw into bricks for building.
Where else “nilbna” appearsbrick
Brick of clay.
Where else “levenim” appearsburn
Burn; bake in the fire.
Where else “nisrfa” appearsburning
Burning, fire.
Where else “serefa” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tehi” appearsstone
A piece of rock, large or small, used for building, marking or throwing.
Where else “aven” appearsbitumen
Bitumen, natural asphalt: it was used to bind bricks and to seal.
Where else “chemar” appearsclay
Wet earth, the potter's dough, or mire.
Where else “chomer” appears2As they journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
3 · This verse (above)
4And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, so that we are not scattered over the face of all the earth.”
1. What it says
What did the people in the land of Shinar say as they built their city and tower (vv. 3-4)?
2. What it means
Why did YHWH confuse their language and scatter them over the whole earth (vv. 6-9)?
3. How I live it
In what you are planning, what is for making a name for yourself, and what is for serving others?
