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Genesis 11

Gen. 11:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And βthey said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: 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.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
one
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
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)
KJV usage: 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 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
to another
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
, Go to
yahab (Hebrew #3051)
to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
KJV usage: ascribe, bring, come on, give, go, set, take.
Pronounce: yaw-hab'
Origin: a primitive root
, let us make
laban (Hebrew #3835)
to be (or become) white; also (as denominative from 3843) to make bricks
KJV usage: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
Pronounce: law-ban'
Origin: a primitive root
brick
lbenah (Hebrew #3843)
a brick (from the whiteness of the clay)
KJV usage: (altar of) brick, tile.
Pronounce: leb-ay-naw'
Origin: from 3835
, and γburn
saraph (Hebrew #8313)
to be (causatively, set) on fire
KJV usage: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-raf'
Origin: a primitive root
them throughly
srephah (Hebrew #8316)
cremation
KJV usage: burning.
Pronounce: ser-ay-faw'
Origin: from 8313
. And they had brick
lbenah (Hebrew #3843)
a brick (from the whiteness of the clay)
KJV usage: (altar of) brick, tile.
Pronounce: leb-ay-naw'
Origin: from 3835
for stone
'eben (Hebrew #68)
a stone
KJV usage: + carbuncle, + mason, + plummet, (chalk-, hail-, head-, sling-)stone(-ny), (divers) weight(-s).
Pronounce: eh'-ben
Origin: from the root of 1129 through the meaning to build
, and slime
chemar (Hebrew #2564)
bitumen (as rising to the surface)
KJV usage: slime(-pit).
Pronounce: khay-mawr'
Origin: from 2560
had
hayah (Hebrew #1961)
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
KJV usage: 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.
Pronounce: haw-yaw
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1933)
they for mortar
chomer (Hebrew #2563)
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
KJV usage: clay, heap, homer, mire, motion.
Pronounce: kho'mer
Origin: from 2560
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a man said to his neighbor.
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burn them to a burning.

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Ministry on This Verse

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they said one to another.
Heb. a man said to his neighbour.Go to.
Gen. 11:4,7• 4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
 7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (Gen. 11:4,7)
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Psa. 64:5• 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? (Psa. 64:5)
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Prov. 1:11• 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: (Prov. 1:11)
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Eccl. 2:1• 1I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity. (Eccl. 2:1)
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Isa. 5:5• 5And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down: (Isa. 5:5)
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Isa. 41:6‑7• 6They helped every one his neighbor; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
 7So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. (Isa. 41:6‑7)
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James 4:13• 13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (James 4:13)
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James 5:1• 1Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. (James 5:1)
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Heb. 3:13• 13But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. (Heb. 3:13)
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Heb. 10:24• 24And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: (Heb. 10:24)
burn throughly.
Heb. burn to a burning.
brick.
Ex. 1:14• 14And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigor. (Ex. 1:14)
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Ex. 5:7‑18• 7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
 8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
 9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not regard vain words.
 10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
 11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
 12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
 13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.
 14And 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?
 15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?
 16There 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.
 17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.
 18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. (Ex. 5:7‑18)
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2 Sam. 12:31• 31And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem. (2 Sam. 12:31)
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Isa. 9:10• 10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. (Isa. 9:10)
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Isa. 65:3• 3A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; (Isa. 65:3)
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Nah. 3:14• 14Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brickkiln. (Nah. 3:14)
slime.
Gen. 14:10• 10And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain. (Gen. 14:10)
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Ex. 2:3• 3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. (Ex. 2:3)
• Man sought to make a center for himself. (“Genesis 10-11” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughlyg. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "burn them to burning."