H3843. lebenah
לְבֵנָה noun feminine brick, tile (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic לְּבִינְתָּא ; Zinjirli לבן (?) DHMSendsch.37. 59; Assyrian libittu; Arabic , , , , (loan-words according to Frä4f.); according to Thes and most from whiteness of clay, or light colour of sun-baked bricks; so NöZMG xi,1886, 735 LagBN 139; > others regard as Assyrian loan-word VOJi. 22ff.; in Assyrian a derivative from labânu, throw down, prostrate, is sought DlPr. 93f.(compare HWB 369)); — ׳ל [Gen 11:3]; [Ezek 4:1]; construct לִבְנַת [Exod 24:10]; plural לְבֵנִים [Gen 11:3] [7]t.; suffix מִלִּבְנֵיכֶם [Exod 5:19]; —
1 brick, as building-material, [Gen 11:3] (singular collective; elsewhere plural) [11:3]; [Exod 1:14]; straw used in making [5:7], compare [5:8]; [5:16]; [5:18]; [5:19]; [Isa 9:9] (figurative; as inferior to גָּזִית hewn stone); incense burnt on [65:3] ( = roof-tiles ? compare Che Di).
2 = tile, on which plan of city could be engraved (חקק) [Ezek 4:1].
3 = pavement, [Exod 24:10] (compare Di).