hebrew #3835 - לָבַן laban (to be white)
Strong's Exhaustive 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 Englishman's Concordance 1) to be white 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to make white, become white, purify 1a2) to show whiteness, grow white 1b) (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical) 2) (Qal) to make bricks Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1074b, 1074h Brown-Driver-Briggs [לָבֵן] verbbe white (on ֵ֯ see BaNB 166; LagBN 33, compare 53, 54 infers לָבֹן ֗֗֗ from לְבֹנָה; Late Hebrew id., Pi`el Hiph`il, and derivatives; Phoenician לבןwhite; 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`ilPerfect3plural הִלְבִּינוּJoel 1:7; Imperfect1singular אַלְבִּיןPsalm 51:9; 3plural יַלְבִּינוּIsaiah 1:18; Infinitive constructוְלַלְבֵּן (=וּלְהַלְבֵּן) Daniel 11:35; — 1make white=purify (ethical) Daniel 11:35 (no object expressed, "" צָרַף, בָּרֵר). 2shew whiteness, grow white, of fig-tree, stripped by locusts, Joel 1:7; figurative of moral purity, ׳כַּשֶּׁלֶג יַלְבIsaiah 1:18; ׳מִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְבPsalm 51:9. Hithpa`elImperfectיִתְלַבְּנוּDaniel 12:10be purified (ethical, "" יִתְבָּֽרֲרוּ). — לָבַן, make brick, see below [לָבַן] verb denominativemake brick (as Assyrian labânu fromlibittu DlHWB 370); — QalImperfect1pluralנִלְבְּנָהGenesis 11:3 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb); Infinitive constructלִלְבֹּןExodus 5:7 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Exodus 5:14 (absolute) Englishman's Concordance (References)Strong's Hebrew: 3835. לָבַן (laban) — 8 OccurrencesGenesis 11:3 Exodus 5:7 Exodus 5:14 Psalm 51:7 Isaiah 1:18 Daniel 11:35 Daniel 12:10 Joel 1:7 |