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Lexicon :: Strong's H3835 - lāḇan

Aa
לָבַן
Transliteration
lāḇan
Pronunciation
law-ban'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1074b,1074h

Strong’s Definitions

לָבַן lâban, law-ban'; a primitive root; also as denominative from H3843 to be (or become) white; to make bricks:—make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H3835 in the following manner: make white (3x), make (2x), make brick (1x), be white (1x), be whiter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H3835 in the following manner: make white (3x), make (2x), make brick (1x), be white (1x), be whiter (1x).

  1. to be white

    1. (Hiphil)

      1. to make white, become white, purify

      2. to show whiteness, grow white

    2. (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical)

  2. (Qal) to make bricks

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָבַן lâban, law-ban'; a primitive root; also as denominative from H3843 to be (or become) white; to make bricks:—make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
STRONGS H3835: Abbreviations
† [לָבֵן] verb be white (on ֵ֯ see BaNB 166; LagBN 33, compare 53, 54 infers לָבֹן ֗֗֗ from לְבֹנָה; Late Hebrew id., Pi. Hiph., and derivatives; Phoenician לבן white; Arabic bdb052603 milk; bdb052604 also be white, dialect of Yemen, MaltzanZMG 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. Perfect 3rd person plural הִלְבִּינוּ Joel 1:7; Imperfect 1st person singular אַלְבִּין Psalm 51:9; 3rd person plural יַלְבִּינוּ Isaiah 1:18; Infinitive construct וְלַלְבֵּן (= וּלְהַלְבֵּן) Daniel 11:35; —
1. make white = purify (ethical) Daniel 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׳ Isaiah 1:18; מִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְב׳ Psalm 51:9.
Hithp. Imperfect יִתְלַבְּנוּ Daniel 12:10 be purified (ethical, || יִתְבָּֽרֲרוּ). — לָבַן, make brick, see below

† [לָבַן] verb denominative make brick (as Assyrian labânu from libittu DlHWB 370); —
Qal Imperfect 1st person plural נִלְבְּנָה Genesis 11:3 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb); Infinitive construct לִלְבֹּן Exodus 5:7 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Exodus 5:14 (absolute).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:3

Exodus

5:7; 5:14

Psalms

51:9; 51:9

Isaiah

1:18; 1:18

Daniel

11:35; 11:35; 12:10

Joel

1:7; 1:7

H3835

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3835 matches the Hebrew לָבַן (lāḇan),
which occurs 8 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:7 - Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:14 - And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 51:7 - Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:18 - Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:35 - And some of those who are wise will have wisdom in testing themselves and making themselves clean, till the time of the end: for it is still for the fixed time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 12:10 - Till a number are tested and make themselves clean; and the evil-doers will do evil; for not one of the evil-doers will have knowledge; but all will be made clear to those who are wise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.
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