# H3835 לָבַן

לָבַן (lâban), Strong’s H3835: to be (or become) white; to make bricks KJV: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).. Occurs 8 times.

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*lâban* — to be (or become) white; to make bricks

KJV: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

Derived from [לְבֵנָה lᵉbênâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H3843) (a brick)

Occurs 8 times.

## 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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/5?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joel/1?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/51?v=9) — Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- [Daniel 11:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/11?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/12?v=10) — Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined, but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of…