H3835 לָבַן
lâban — to be (or become) white; to make bricks
KJV: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
Derived from לְבֵנָה lᵉbênâh (a brick)
Occurs 8 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [לָבֵן] vb. be white
- Hiph.
- 1 make white = purify (ethical)
- 2 shew whiteness, grow white, of fig tree, stripped by locusts
- Hithp. be purified
- לָבַן vb. denom
- [לָבַן] vb. denom. make brick
Where it occurs
- Genesis 11:3 — They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…
- Exodus 5:7 — “You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:14 — The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why…
- Isaiah 1:18 — “Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…
- Joel 1:7 — He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are…
- Psalms 51:9 — Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Daniel 11:35 — Some of those who are wise will fall—to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the…
- Daniel 12:10 — Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of…