Lâban — H3835

Definition

verb

to be (or become) white; to make bricks

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

Usually translated as

white, make brick, whiter, be

Origin

a primitive root; also as denominative from H3843

• Derived from Lᵉbênâh (H3843)

Greek equivalents

• leukaínō (G3021)

Occurrences

Lâban occurs 8 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (2), Psalms (1), Isaiah (1), Daniel (2), Joel (1)

• Genesis 11:3 — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make (נִלְבְּנָ֣ה) brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
• Exodus 5:7 — Ye shall no more give the people straw to make (לִלְבֹּ֥ן) brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
• Exodus 5:14 — And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick (לִלְבֹּן֙) both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
• Psalms 51:7 — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter (אַלְבִּֽין) than snow.
• Isaiah 1:18 — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white (יַלְבִּ֔ינוּ) as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Daniel 11:35 — And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white (וְלַלְבֵּ֖ן), even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
• Daniel 12:10 — Many shall be purified, and made white (וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּ), and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
• Joel 1:7 — He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white (הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ).