STRONGS NUMBER H4404


Word Summary
malben: a brick mold, quadrangle
Original Word: מַלְבֵּן
Transliteration: malben
Phonetic Spelling: (mal-bane')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a brick mold, quadrangle
Meaning: a brick mold, quadrangle
Strong's Concordance
brick kiln

From laban (denominative); a brick-kiln -- brickkiln.

see HEBREW laban

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4404. malben

מַלְבֵּןnoun [masculine]

1 brick-mould;

2 quadrangle (on meaning brick-mould, and figurative something rectangular, see HoffmZAW 1882, 53-72 Dr2 Samuel 12:31, compare Late Hebrew מַלְבֵּן‎; Arabic ; Syriac ); —

1 brick-mould, 2 Samuel 12:31 Qr (Kt, by error, מלכן‎), Nahum 3:14.

2 quadrangle, Jeremiah 43:9 (at Tahpanhes).