Thematic Bible: Mortar
Thematic Bible
Mortar » Cement or slime
and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.
Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
Because, yea because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace! and there is no peace; and one buildeth up a wall, and lo, they daub it with untempered mortar --
Mortar » A vessel for pulverizing substances
The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of oil-cakes.
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Mortar » An instrument for pulverizing grain
The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of oil-cakes.
If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him.
Mortar » Cement » Plaster » Houses
And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and they shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
And they shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and shall carry them forth out of the city to an unclean place.
Mortar » Cement » Not enduring
And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing vanity and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah! and Jehovah hath not spoken.
Mortar » Figurative
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come, from the rising of the sun, he who will call upon my name; and he shall come upon princes as on mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Mortar » Cement » Firm » Trodden
Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
Mortar » Cement » Slime » Building » Babel
And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
Mortar » Cement
and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.