levena · brick

What it means

levena (לְבֵנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “brick”.

Of clay.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A piece of clay and straw, dried or baked, used to build walls and houses.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bricks ×9
• brick ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×6
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 11:3

  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.

• Exodus 1:14

  and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, with mortar and with bricks and with every kind of work in the field; all their work in which they made them work was ruthless.

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give straw to the people to make bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 5:8

  But the quota of bricks that they were making before you shall impose on them; you shall not reduce any of it, for they are lazy; that is why they cry out, saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our Elohim.’

• Exodus 5:16

  No straw is given to your servants, yet bricks! they keep saying to us, ‘Make them!’ And look, your servants are beaten; but the sin is your people’s.”

• Exodus 5:18

  So now go and work; and straw will not be given to you, yet the quota of bricks you shall deliver.”

• Exodus 5:19

  The supervisors of the sons of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You shall not reduce any of your bricks, each day’s task on its day.”

• Isaiah 9:10

  “Bricks have fallen, but with hewn stone we will build; sycamores have been cut down, but cedars we will put in their place.”

• Isaiah 65:3

  the people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on the bricks;

• Ezekiel 4:1

  And you, son of man, take for yourself a brick and set it before you, and engrave on it a city, Jerusalem.

And 1 more times.