KJV dictionary & concordance
A block of chiefly clay earth, formed, dried, and burned for building.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 11:3
Complete exact-word concordance
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 sayd one to another; Goe to, let vs make bricke, and burne them thorowly. And they had bricke for stone, and slime had they for morter.
1611 marginal noteHeb. a man said to his neighbour.
1611 marginal noteHeb. burne them to a burning.
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 they made their liues bitter, with hard bondage, in morter and in bricke, and in all maner of seruice in the fielde: all their seruice wherein they made them serue, was with rigour.
Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Yee shall no more giue the people straw to make bricke, as heretofore: let them goe and gather straw for themselues.
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaohs task-masters had set ouer them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore haue ye not fulfilled your taske, in making bricke, both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
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.
There is no straw giuen vnto thy seruants, and they say to vs, Make bricke: and beholde, thy seruants are beaten; but the fault is in thine owne people.
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
A people that prouoketh mee to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense vpon altars of bricke:
1611 marginal noteHeb. vpon brickes.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A mass of earth, chiefly clay, first moistened and made fine by grinding or treading, then formed in a mold, dried, and baked or burnt in a kiln; used in buildings and walls.
