King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3835
Transliteration: laban
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ban')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be white
Meaning: to be, white, to make bricks
Word Summary
laban: to be white
Original Word: לָבַןTransliteration: laban
Phonetic Spelling: (law-ban')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be white
Meaning: to be, white, to make bricks
Strong's Concordance
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
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3835. laban
[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. לִבְנָה לְבָנָא, לָבָן,, 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, "" בָּרֵר צָרַף,).
2 shew whiteness, grow white, of fig-tree, stripped by locusts, Joel 1:7; figurative of moral purity, יַלְב ׳כַּשֶּׁלֶג Isaiah 1:18; אַלְב ׳מִשֶּׁלֶג 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), 5:14 (absolute)