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laban: brick
Original Word: לָבַן
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: laban
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ban')
Short Definition: brick

[לָבֵן] verb be white (on ֵ֯ see BaNB 166; LagBN 33, compare 53, 54 infers לָבֹן ֗֗֗ from לְבֹנָה; Late Hebrew id., Pi`el Hiph`il, and derivatives; Phoenician לבן white; Arabic milk; 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`il Perfect3plural הִלְבִּינוּ Joel 1:7; Imperfect1singular אַלְבִּין Psalm 51:9; 3plural 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.

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

[לָבַן] verb denominative make brick (as Assyrian labânu fromlibittu DlHWB 370); —

Qal Imperfect1pluralנִלְבְּנָה 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)



make brick, be made, make whiter

A primitive root; to be (or become) white; also (as denominative from lbenah) to make bricks -- make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

see HEBREW lbenah

lə·lā·ḇî — 1 Occ.
lə·liḇ·’ō·ṯāw — 1 Occ.
lə·ḇā·’im — 1 Occ.
lə·ḇî·yā — 1 Occ.
ū·ḵə·lā·ḇî — 2 Occ.
hal·lə·ḇi·ḇō·wṯ — 2 Occ.
lə·ḇi·ḇō·wṯ — 1 Occ.
’al·bîn — 1 Occ.
hil·bî·nū — 1 Occ.
lil·bōn — 2 Occ.
wə·lal·bên — 1 Occ.
wə·yiṯ·lab·bə·nū — 1 Occ.
yal·bî·nū — 1 Occ.
hal·lā·ḇān — 1 Occ.
lā·ḇān — 11 Occ.
lə·lā·ḇān — 2 Occ.
lə·ḇā·nāh — 7 Occ.
lə·ḇā·nîm — 2 Occ.
lə·ḇā·nō·wṯ — 3 Occ.
ū·lə·ḇā·nîm — 1 Occ.


Strong's Hebrew 3835
8 Occurrences


’al·bîn — 1 Occ.
hil·bî·nū — 1 Occ.
lil·bōn — 2 Occ.
nil·bə·nāh — 1 Occ.
wə·lal·bên — 1 Occ.
wə·yiṯ·lab·bə·nū — 1 Occ.
yal·bî·nū — 1 Occ.

Genesis 11:3
BIB: רֵעֵ֗הוּ הָ֚בָה נִלְבְּנָ֣ה לְבֵנִ֔ים וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה
NAS: Come, let us make bricks and burn
KJV: Go to, let us make brick,
INT: another Come make brick and burn

Exodus 5:7
BIB: תֶּ֧בֶן לָעָ֛ם לִלְבֹּ֥ן הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים כִּתְמ֣וֹל
NAS: straw to make brick as previously;
KJV: straw to make brick,
INT: straw the people to make brick before

Exodus 5:14
BIB: כִלִּיתֶ֨ם חָקְכֶ֤ם לִלְבֹּן֙ כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם
NAS: today in making brick as previously?
KJV: your task in making brick both yesterday
INT: completed your required making yesterday before that time

Psalm 51:7
BIB: תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃
NAS: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than
KJV: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
INT: wash snow shall be whiter

Isaiah 1:18
BIB: כַּשָּׁנִים֙ כַּשֶּׁ֣לֶג יַלְבִּ֔ינוּ אִם־ יַאְדִּ֥ימוּ
NAS: are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow;
KJV: be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
INT: scarlet snow white Though are red

Daniel 11:35
BIB: בָּהֶ֛ם וּלְבָרֵ֥ר וְלַלְבֵּ֖ן עַד־ עֵ֣ת
NAS: purge and make them pure until
KJV: them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time
INT: to refine purge and make until time

Daniel 12:10
BIB: יִ֠תְבָּֽרֲרוּ וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּ וְיִצָּֽרְפוּ֙ רַבִּ֔ים
NAS: will be purged, purified and refined,
KJV: shall be purified, and made white, and tried;
INT: will be purged purified and refined Many

Joel 1:7
BIB: חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃
NAS: Their branches have become white.
KJV: the branches thereof are made white.
INT: bare and cast have become their branches

8 Occurrences


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