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לְבָנוֺן (
Deuteronomy 3:25 הַלְּבָנֹן van d. H.)
71 proper name, of a mountain Lebanon (Phoenician 
לבנן; Assyrian 
Labnanu, etc., Schr
COT on 1 Kings 5:13, Dl
Par. 103 ff.; Egyptian 
Ra-man-n WMM
Asien u. Europa, 197ff.; Arabic 

compare further Rob
BR ii, 435ff.493 GASm
Geogr. 45ff. Buhl
Geogr.110 and references; name probably from 
whiteness of its cliffs Rob
BR ii, 493); — wooded mountain-range on northern border of Israel [usually with article 
הַלּ׳ (
51 times); without article
לְבָנוֺן, in poetry and late 
Hosea 14:8; 
Nahum 1:4; 
2 Kings 19:23 = 
Isaiah 37:24; 
Ezekiel 31:15, 
16; 
Isaiah 14:8; 
Isaiah 29:17; 
Isaiah 33:9; 
Isaiah 40:16; 
Jeremiah 18:14; 
Habakkuk 2:17; 
Zechariah 10:10; 
Zechariah 11:1; 
Psalm 29:6; 
Songs 4:8 (twice in verse); 
Songs 4:11, 
15; with 
ה locative 
לְבָב֫וֺנָה 1 Kings 5:28a]; perhaps first mentioned in defining a locality, as 
הַר הַלְּבָנוֺן, 
Judges 3:3 (E according to GFM; this combination only here), but also in early prophets, then in D, and later; — in defining a locality 
Joshua 9:1; 
בִּקְעַת הַלּ׳ Joshua 11:17; 
Joshua 12:7 (side of Baal Gad); as a marked feature, in describing extent of land 
Deuteronomy 1:7; 
Deuteronomy 3:25; 
Deuteronomy 11:24; 
Joshua 1:4; 
Joshua 13:5 (
כָּלהַֿל) 
Joshua 13:6 (all D), 
1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6; 
Jeremiah 22:26; 
Zechariah 10:10; 
אשׁהַל׳ ר׳ Jeremiah 22:6 (figurative of royal house of Judah), as a height 
Songs 4:8 (twice in verse); 
מִגְדַּל הַל׳ Songs 7:5 i.e. a tower built on Lebanon; 
שֶׁלֶג ל׳ Jeremiah 18:14 snow of L.; L. as source of streams 
Songs 4:15; 
יֵין ל׳ Hosea 14:8; most often, however, as bearing forests, especially of cedars, 
אַרְזֵי הַלּ׳ Judges 9:15 (in allegory; perhaps J, according to GFM), 
Isaiah 2:13; 
Isaiah 14:8; 
Psalm 29:5; 
Psalm 104:16, compare 
1 Kings 5:13; 1 Kings 5:20; 1 Kings 5:23; 1 Kings 5:28 (twice in verse); 
2 Chronicles 2:7 (twice in verse); 
2 Chronicles 2:15, 
2 Kings 14:9 (twice in verse) = 
2 Chronicles 25:18 (twice in verse) (in allegory), 
Jeremiah 22:23; 
Ezekiel 17:3; 
Ezekiel 27:5; 
Ezekiel 31:3, 
15, 
16; 
Zechariah 11:1; 
Ezra 3:7; 
Psalm 92:13; 
Songs 3:9; 
Songs 5:15 (simile of majestic figure); 
מֶּרַח ל׳ Nahum 1:4; 
כְּבוֺד הַלּ׳ Isaiah 35:2; 
Isaiah 60:13; 
לְכַרְמֶל וְשָׁב ל׳ Isaiah 29:17 ׅ || 
(יַעַר יַרְכְּתֵי ל׳ with the same reference 
Isaiah 37:24 = 
2 Kings 19:23; 
הַלּ׳ = trees of Lebanon 
Hosea 14:6; 
Isaiah 10:34; 
Isaiah 40:16; 
Psalm 29:6; 
Psalm 72:16; 
ל׳ Isaiah 33:9 figurative, as mourning; 
חֲמַס ל׳ Habakkuk 2:17 i.e. 
violence done to Lebanon, probably by cutting down its trees; 
בֵּית יַעַר הַלּ׳ a royal mansion of Solomon, 
1 Kings 7:2; and 
1 Kings 10:17, 
21 2 Chronicles 9:16, 
20; 
ל׳ as home of wild beast 
2 Kings 14:9 2 Chronicles 25:18 (in allegory); 
רֵיחַ לְבָנוֺן, of the odour of cedar forests 
Songs 4:11, compare 
Hosea 14:7 (in simile; We thinks 
ל׳ here to be a specific plant).
														
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