πλίνθος
brick
Where this word appears
Every passage where πλίνθος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 11:3 πλίνθος And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
- Genesis 11:3 πλίνθος And a man said to his neighbor, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.
- Exodus 5:16 πλίνθος Straw is not given to your servants, and they tell us to make brick; and behold your servants have been scourged: you will therefore injure your people.
- Exodus 24:10 πλίνθος And they saw the place where the God of Israel stood; and under his feet was as it were a work of sapphire slabs, and as it were the appearance of the firmament of heaven in its purity.
- Isaiah 9:9 πλίνθος And all the people of Ephraim, and they that lived in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,
- Isaiah 24:23 πλίνθος And the brick shall decay, and the wall shall fall; for the Lord shall reign from out of Sion, and out of Jerusalem, and shall be glorified before his elders.
- Isaiah 65:3 πλίνθος This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.
- Ezekiel 4:1 πλίνθος And you, son of man, take you a brick, and you shall set it before your face, and shall portray on it the city, even Jerusalem.
- Micah 7:11 πλίνθος It is the day of making of brick; that day shall be your utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish your ordinances.
- Nahum 3:14 πλίνθος Draw you water for a siege, and well secure your strongholds: enter into the clay, and be you trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.
About this word
About this word
πλίνθος (plínthos), “brick,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 10 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →