{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3835",
  "lemma": "לָבַן",
  "transliteration": "lâban",
  "definition": "to be (or become) white; to make bricks",
  "kjv": "make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).",
  "occurrences": 8,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H3843",
      "lemma": "לְבֵנָה",
      "transliteration": "lᵉbênâh",
      "meaning": "a brick",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H3843"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 11:3",
      "text": "They said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 5:7",
      "text": "“You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick, as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 5:14",
      "text": "The officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and were asked, “Why…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 1:18",
      "text": "“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says the LORD: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joel 1:7",
      "text": "He has laid my vine waste, and stripped my fig tree. He has stripped its bark, and thrown it away. Its branches are…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 51:9",
      "text": "Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/51?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 11:35",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/11?v=35"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 12:10",
      "text": "Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/12?v=10"
    }
  ],
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