Strong's Lexicon

H3835

H3835 — לָבַן

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Hebrewlabanverb-stemOccurrences: 8TWOT: 1074h

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:	H3835
Word:	לָבַן
Part of Speech:	verb-stem
Etymology:	a primitive root
Language:	Hebrew
Occurrences:	8
Transliteration:	laban
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:	law-ban'
Meaning:	1. to be (or become) white 2. (as denominative from H3843) to make bricks
KJV Renderings:	make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB4304

[לָבֵן] verb be white (on ֵ֯ see Ba^{NB 166}; Lag^{BN 33}, compare 53, 54 infers לָבֹן ֗֗֗ from לְבֹנָה; Late Hebrew id., Pi`el Hiph`il, and derivatives; Phoenician לבן white; Arabic [untranscribed source text 2735] milk; [untranscribed source text 2736] also be white, dialect of Yemen, Maltzan^{ZMG xxvii, 1873, 247}; apparently √ of following fourteen words, but this dubious especially in case of II. III. לָבָן, לְבָנָא, לִבְנָה, II. לְבוֺנָה, I. II. לִבְנִי); —

Hiph`il Perfect 3 plural הִלְבִּינוּ Joel 1:7 Imperfect 1 singular אַלְבִּין Ps 51:9 3 plural יַלְבִּינוּ Isa 1:18 Infinitive construct וְלַלְבֵּן (= וּלְהַלְבֵּן) Dan 11:35 —

1. make white = purify (ethical) Dan 11:35 (no object expressed, || צָרַף, בָּרֵר).

2. shew whiteness, grow white, of fig-tree, stripped by locusts, Joel 1:7 figurative of moral purity, ׳ כַּשֶּׁלֶג יַלְב Isa 1:18 ׳ מִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְב Ps 51:9.

Hithpa`el Imperfect יִתְלַבְּנוּ Dan 12:10 be purified (ethical, || יִתְבָּֽרֲרוּ). — לָבַן, make brick, see below

BDB4318

[לָבַן] verb denominative make brick (as Assyrian labânu fromlibittu Dl^{HWB 370}); —

Qal Imperfect 1 pluralנִלְבְּנָה Gen 11:3 (with accusative of cognate meaning with verb); Infinitive construct לִלְבֹּן Exod 5:7 (with accusative of cognate meaning with verb), Exod 5:14 (absolute)

Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

לבן (lah-vēhn)

Exodus 5:7

KJV: Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

EHCC: give the straw to make brick,

Joel 1:7

KJV: He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.barked…: Heb. laid my fig tree for a barking

EHCC: the branches thereof are made white.

Daniel 11:35

KJV: And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.try them: or, try by them

EHCC: to purge, and fo make (them) whe,

Psalms 51:7

KJV: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

EHCC: (9). 7 shall be whiter than mow.

Isaiah 1:18

KJV: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

EHCC: they shall be as white as mow;

Daniel 12:10

KJV: Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

EHCC: Many shall be purified, and made rhs,