Levenah לְבֵנָה

Levenah (Hebrew לְבֵנָה, Strong's H3843) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “brick”. It occurs 12 times in 11 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Levenah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 11:3
  And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Exodus

• Exodus 1:14
  And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
• Exodus 5:7
  Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
• Exodus 5:8
  And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’
• Exodus 5:16
  There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.No straw has been given to your servants, yet we are told, ‘Make bricks!’ Look, your servants are being beaten, but the fault is with your own people.”
• Exodus 5:18
  Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.Now get to work. You will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the full quota of bricks.”
• Exodus 5:19
  And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task.The Israelite foremen realized they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce your daily quota of bricks.”
• Exodus 24:10
  And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.and they saw the God of Israel. Under His feet was a work like a pavement made of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 9:10
  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
• Isaiah 65:3
  A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 4:1
  Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem:“Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).