HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4971
מַתְכֹ֫נֶת
mat.kho.net — tally
1) measurement, proportion, tale 1a) tale, tally (of bricks) 1b) measurement, proportion
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Bricks
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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GREEK · G6959
δόμος
domos — a layer
1. Lat. domus: 2. a house , (Homer), etc.: also part of a house, a room, chamber , (Odyssey by Homer):—; hence in plural for a house , (Homer): a wasps' or bees' nest , (Iliad by Homer) 5. κέδρινοι δόμοι a closet or chest of cedar, (Euripides) 6. the house , i. e. the household, family , [variant datesTragica Adespota:—;also one's father's house , (Aeschulus Tragicus) 7. a layer or course of stone or bricks in a building, διὰ τριήκοντα δόμων πλίνθου at every thirtieth layer of brick, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
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ὀπτάω
optaō — to bake
1. to roast, broil , (Homer), etc.; with genitive partitive, ὀπτῆσαί τε κρεῶν to roast some meat, (Odyssey by Homer):—; ὀπτᾶν was used of cooking by means of fire or dry heat , opposite to ἕψω to boil in water , which never appears in (Homer); and a [variant datesComica Adespota poet remarks that Homer's heroes ate only roast meat:—;Pass., aor1 infinitive ὀπτηθῆναι (Odyssey by Homer) 2. to bake bread, (Herdotus Historicus):—;also of bricks or pottery, to bake, burn , (Herdotus Historicus) 3. to bake, harden , of the sun, (Bion Bucolicus) 4. metaphorically in Pass. to be burned by love, [Refs 3rd c.BC, variant datesAnthology Palantina (ML)
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πλινθεία
plintheia — making of bricks
making of bricks
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πλινθεύω
plintheuō — to make bricks
1. to make into bricks , τὴν γῆν (Herdotus Historicus):—;absolute to make bricks , (Aristophanes Comicus);—;so in Mid., thuc. 2. to build of brick , τείχη (Aristophanes Comicus) 3. to make in the form of a plinth or brick , (Aristophanes Comicus) (ML)
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πλίνθος
plinthos — a brick
a brick , (Herdotus Historicus), etc.; πλίνθους ἑλκύσαι, εἰρύσαι, Lat. ducere lateres, to make bricks , (Herdotus Historicus); ὀπτᾶν to bake them, (Herdotus Historicus) (ML)
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The making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Ex. 1:13, 14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dried in the sun, though also sometimes in kilns (2 Sam. 12:31; Jer. 43:9; Nah. 3:14). (See NEBUCHADNEZZAR.) The bricks used in the tower of Babel were burnt bricks, cemented in the building by bitumen (Gen. 11:3).
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Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.