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Genesis 11:3
🇮🇱 BIBLICAL HEBREW

📖 King James Version

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

🔤 Interlinear Analysis — Hebrew (BDB)

# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וַ/יֹּאמְר֞וּ אָמַר H559 HC/Vqw3mp אָמַר a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude): answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
2 אִ֣ישׁ אּישׁ H376 HNcmsa אּישׁ contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation): also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare נָשִׁים.
3 אֶל אֶל H413 HR אֶל (but only used in the shortened constructive form sel); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to: about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
4 רֵעֵ֗/הוּ רֵ֫עַ H7453 HNcmsc/Sp3ms רֵ֫עַ or reya2; from רָעָה; an associate (more or less close): brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
5 הָ֚בָ/ה יָהַב H3051 HVqv2ms/Sh יָהַב a primitive root; to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come: ascribe, bring, come on, give, go, set, take.
6 נִלְבְּנָ֣ה לָבַן H3835 HVqh1cp לָבַן a primitive root; to be (or become) white; also (as denominative from לְבֵנִים) to make bricks: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
7 לְבֵנִ֔ים לְבֵנִים H3843 HNcfpa לְבֵנִים from לָבַן; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay): (altar of) brick, tile.
8 וְ/נִשְׂרְפָ֖ה שָׂרַף H8313 HC/Vqh1cp שָׂרַף a primitive root; to be (causatively, set) on fire: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, X utterly.
9 לִ/שְׂרֵפָ֑ה שְׂרֵפָה H8316 HR/Ncfsa שְׂרֵפָה from שָׂרַף; cremation: burning.
10 וַ/תְּהִ֨י הָיָה H1961 HC/Vqw3fs הָיָה a primitive root (compare הָוָה); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
11 לָ/הֶ֤ם HR/Sp3mp
12 הַ/לְּבֵנָה֙ לְבֵנִים H3843 HTd/Ncfsa לְבֵנִים from לָבַן; a brick (from the whiteness of the clay): (altar of) brick, tile.
13 לְ/אָ֔בֶן אָ֫בֶן H68 HR/Ncfsa אָ֫בֶן from the root of בָּנָה through the meaning to build; a stone: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
14 וְ/הַ֣/חֵמָ֔ר חֵמָר H2564 HC/Td/Ncmsa חֵמָר from חָמַר; bitumen (as rising to the surface): slime(-pit).
15 הָיָ֥ה הָיָה H1961 HVqp3ms הָיָה a primitive root (compare הָוָה); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
16 לָ/הֶ֖ם HR/Sp3mp
17 לַ/חֹֽמֶר חֹ֫מֶר H2563 HRd/Ncmsa חֹ֫מֶר from חָמַר; properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.