le.ve.nah denotes a brick, especially as a made building material, a required work product, or an object set before someone.

The term denotes a brick in contexts of making and using building material: Exodus places plural forms in forced labor and required production, Genesis describes bricks being made and burned, and other verses use the item as an object or surface.

1. Brick as a made material or physical object · dominant

   In Exodus 1:14, Exodus 5:7, Exodus 5:16, Exodus 5:18, and Exodus 5:19, the plural form occurs in clauses about clay, straw, making, and maintaining a daily quota; the APB renders these clauses with “bricks.” In Genesis 11:3, plural and singular forms occur as bricks are made and burned, while Ezekiel 4:1 uses the singular for an item placed before the prophet and marked with a city.

   Exodus 1:14Exodus 5:7Exodus 5:16Exodus 5:18Exodus 5:19Genesis 11:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Where the clause is clear, the APB regularly presents the term as “bricks” or “brick,” including production quotas in Exodus and the item set before the prophet in Ezekiel. Its wording does not isolate the term's contribution in every occurrence, including Isaiah 9:9.