malben · brick kiln, brick mold

What it means

malben (מַלְבֵּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “brick kiln, brick mold”.

Brick kiln or brick mold.

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 clay mold for making bricks, or the kiln where they are fired.
2. A pavement of fired bricks in front of a house's entrance.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• brick kiln ×1
• brick mold ×1
• brickwork ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Nahum×1

• 2 Samuel 12:31

  And the people who were in it he brought out, and he put them with the saw and with the picks of iron and with the axes of iron, and he made them pass through the brick kiln; and so he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 43:9

  “Take in your hand large stones, and hide them in the mortar, in the brickwork that is at the entrance of the house of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of Jewish men;

• Nahum 3:14

  Draw water for the siege for yourself; strengthen your fortresses; go into the mud and tread the clay; take hold of the brick mold.