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# לָבַן

Biblical Hebrew

**make brick** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

make brick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָבַן: vb.denom. make brick [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. make brick (as Assyrian labânu from libittu DlHWB 370);— Impf. 1 pl. נִלְבְּנָה Gn 11:3 (c. acc. cogn.); Inf. cstr. לִלְבֹּן Ex 5:7 (c. acc. cogn.), v 14 (abs.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: let us make bricks (1); make bricks (1); making bricks (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.7/#tree)

לֹ֣א תֹאסִפ֞וּן לָתֵ֨ת תֶּ֧בֶן לָעָ֛ם לִלְבֹּ֥ן הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֑ם הֵ֚ם יֵֽלְכ֔וּ וְקֹשְׁשׁ֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם תֶּֽבֶן׃

*Word for word:* not you will.repeat to give straw to the people to make.bricks the bricks as yesterday three.days.ago they let.them.go and they.will.gather for themselves straw

*JPS 1917:* 'Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.

[Exodus 5:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.5.14/#tree)

וַיֻּכּ֗וּ שֹֽׁטְרֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֲשֶׁר־שָׂ֣מוּ עֲלֵהֶ֔ם נֹגְשֵׂ֥י פַרְעֹ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר מַדּ֡וּעַ לֹא֩ כִלִּיתֶ֨ם חָקְכֶ֤ם לִלְבֹּן֙ כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם גַּם־תְּמ֖וֹל גַּם־הַיּֽוֹם׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.struck the.foremen of.the.people of.Israel whom they.had.appointed over them the.taskmasters of.Pharaoh (cmp) why? not have.you.completed portion your.prescribed by making.bricks as yesterday three.days.ago neither yesterday nor this day

*JPS 1917:* And the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, saying: 'Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your appointed task in making brick both yesterday and today as heretofore?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b8_5d1_5b7_5df/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).