# H3843 לְבֵנָה

לְבֵנָה (lᵉbênâh), Strong’s H3843: a brick (from the whiteness of the clay) KJV: (altar of) brick, tile.. Occurs 11 times.

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*lᵉbênâh* — a brick (from the whiteness of the clay)

KJV: (altar of) brick, tile.

Derived from [לָבַן lâban](https://besorah.bible/word/H3835) (to be)

Occurs 11 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- לְבֵנָה n.f. brick, tile
- 1 brick, as building-material
- 2 = tile, on which plan of city could be engraved
- 3 = pavement

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 11:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=3) — They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…
- [Exodus 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=14) — and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field…
- [Exodus 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=7) — “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- [Exodus 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=8) — You shall require from them the number of the bricks which they made before. You shall not diminish anything of it, for…
- [Exodus 5:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=16) — No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault…
- [Exodus 5:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=18) — Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given to you; yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”
- [Exodus 5:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=19) — The officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble when it was said, “You shall not diminish anything…
- [Isaiah 9:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/9?v=9) — “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put…
- [Isaiah 65:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/65?v=3) — a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;
- [Ezekiel 4:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/4?v=1) — “You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem.