KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

Used in building:

Babel
Genesis 11:3

Cities in Egypt
Exodus 1:11; Exodus 1:14

Houses
Isaiah 9:10

Altars
Isaiah 65:3

Made by Israelites
Exodus 5:7-19; 2 Samuel 12:31; Jeremiah 43:9; Nahum 3:14

(Genesis 11:3) The brick in use among the Jews were much larger than with us, being usually from 12 to 13 inches square and 3 1/2 inches thick; they thus possess more of the character of tiles. (Ezekiel 4:1) The Isr'lites, in common with other captives, were employed by the Egyptian monarchs in making bricks and in building. (Exodus 1:14; 5:7) Egyptian bricks were not generally dried in kilns, but in the sun. That brick-kilns were known is evident from (2 Samuel 12:31; Jeremiah 43:9) When made of the Nile mud they required straw to prevent cracking. [STRAW]

BRICK, noun [Latin imbrex, a gutter-tile, from imber, a shower, which is probably a compound, of which the last syllable is from whence.]

A mass of earth, chiefly clay, first moistened and made fine by grinding or treading, then formed into a long square in a mold, dried and baked or burnt in a kiln; used in buildings and walls.

1. A loaf shaped like a brick

BRICK, verb transitive To lay or pave with bricks.

1. To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on plaster, by smearing it with red ocher and making the joints with an edge-tool, filling them with fine plaster.

BRICK'BAT, noun [brick and bat.] A piece or fragment of a brick.

BRICK'-BUILT, adjective Built with bricks.

BRICK'-CLAY, noun [brick and clay.] Clay used or suitable for making bricks.

BRICK'DUST, noun [brick and dust.] Dust of pounded bricks.

BRICK'EARTH, noun [brick and earth.] Clay or earth used, or suitable for bricks.

BRICK'KILN, noun [brick and kiln.] A kiln, or furnace, in which bricks are baked or burnt, or a pile of bricks, laid loose, with arches underneath to receive the wood or fuel.

General references
Jeremiah 43:9; Nahum 3:14

Captives tortured in
2 Samuel 12:31

BRICK'LAYER, noun [brick and lay.] One whose occupation is to build with bricks; a mason.

BRICKLE, adjective [from break.] Brittle; easily broken. [Not used.]

BRICK'MAKER, noun [brick and make.] One who makes bricks, or whose occupation is to make bricks.

The making of, formed the chief labour of the Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 1:13, 14). Those found among the ruins of Babylon and Nineveh are about a foot square and four inches thick. They were usually dried in the sun, though also sometimes in kilns (2 Samuel 12:31; Jeremiah 43:9; Nahum 3:14). (See NEBUCHADNEZZAR.)

The bricks used in the tower of Babel were burnt bricks, cemented in the building by bitumen (Genesis 11:3).

BRICK'WORK, noun The laying of bricks, or a wall of bricks.

BRICK'Y, adjective Full of bricks, or formed of bricks.