In biblical times, mortar was a crucial building material used for construction and various other purposes. It is a mixture of sand, water, and a binding agent, typically lime or clay, which hardens to form a solid mass. Mortar was essential for binding stones or bricks together, ensuring the stability and durability of structures.

Biblical References:

1. Genesis 11:3 · The earliest mention of mortar in the Bible is found in the account of the Tower of Babel. The people said, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. This passage highlights the use of mortar in conjunction with bricks, indicating its role in early construction techniques.

2. Exodus 1:14 · During the Israelites' bondage in Egypt, mortar was part of their forced labor. "They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor, the Egyptians used them ruthlessly." This verse illustrates the harshExodus 1:14
And 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.
Nave's Topical Index

4423. melet -- mortar, cement
... 4422, 4423. melet. 4424 . mortar, cement. Transliteration: melet Phonetic
Spelling: (meh'-let) Short Definition: mortar. Word Origin ...
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2563a. chomer -- cement, mortar, clay
... 2563, 2563a. chomer. 2563b . cement, mortar, clay. Transliteration: chomer
Short Definition: clay. Word Origin from chamar Definition ...
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2563. chomer -- cement, mortar, clay
... 2562, 2563. chomer. 2563a . cement, mortar, clay. Transliteration: chomer Phonetic
Spelling: (kho'mer) Short Definition: clay. clay, heap, homer, mire, motion ...
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A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of ...
... ordinances are, By them he doth his stones and timber square, Affections knit in
love, the couplings are; Good doctrine like to mortar doth cement The whole ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/a discourse of the building.htm

Members of Christ
... the mortar dries, and the stone seems to bite into the foundation, and holds fast
to it. In old Roman walls, you cannot get a stone away; for the cement, which ...
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That the virtues have their Perfection from Divine Love.
... Without the cement and mortar which fasten the stones and walls, the whole edifice
goes to rack; were it not for the nerves, muscles and sinews, the whole body ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ix that the virtues.htm

The Present Distress of Nations.
... The very cement by which human society has been welded together is corroded so that
Civilization is now like walls without mortar"ready to fall to pieces. ...
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Hugh the Builder
... work, for he carried the hod and did not disdain to bring mortar and stones ... to be
seen, is unique." The Legenda says that Hugh carried stones and cement in a ...
/.../marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/chapter viii hugh the builder.htm

Letter cxxxiii. To Ctesiphon.
... They confound old mire with new cement and, as Ezekiel says, daub a wall with
untempered mortar; so that, when the truth comes in a shower, they are brought to ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxxiii to ctesiphon.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7. <. ...
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The Catholic System.
... divided, but is in truth connected and joined together by the cement of bishops ... their
highest achievements are literally in the department of stone and mortar. ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter viii the catholic system.htm

Everybody's Sermon
... busy in building all day long, laying the stone upon its fellow and the mortar in
its ... upon a rock, and not upon the sand, and that the vermillion cement of the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/everybodys sermon.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 4. <. ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

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