לָבֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3835

be white — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

be white tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָבֵן: vb. be white tree →

The whole BDB entry

vb. be white (onֵ v. BaNB 166; v. LagBN 33, cf. 53, 54 infers לָבֹן from לִבֹנָה; NH id., Pi. Hiph., and deriv.; Ph. לבן white; Arabic لَبَنٌ milk; لبن also be white, dial. of Yemen, MaltzanZMG xxvii, 1873, 247; appar. √ of foll. fourteen words, but this dub. especially in case of ii. iii. לָבָן, לְבָנָא, לִבְנָה, ii. לְבוֹנָה, i. ii. לִבְנִי);— Pf. 3 pl. הִלְבִּינוּ Jo 1:7; Impf. 1 s. אַלְבִּין ψ 51:9; 3 pl. יַלְבִּינוּ Is 1:18; Inf. cstr. וְלַלְבֵּן (= וּלְהַלְבֵּן) Dn 11:35;— make white = purify (ethical) Dn 11:35 (no object expr., ‖ עָרַף, בָּרֵר). shew whiteness, grow white, of fig-tree, stripped by locusts, Jo 1:7; fig. of moral purity, כַּשֶּׁלֶג יַלְב׳ Is 1:18; מִשֶּׁלֶגּ אַלְב׳ ψ 51:9. Impf. יִתְלַבְּנוּ Dn 12:10 be purified (ethical, ‖ יִתְבָּֽרֲרוּ).—לָבַן, make brick, v. infr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I will become white (1); purify [them] (1); they have become white (1).

In the verses

Psalms 51:9 · tree →

תְּחַטְּאֵ֣נִי בְאֵז֣וֹב וְאֶטְהָ֑ר תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃

Word for word: you will.cleanse.me.from.sin with hyssop so that.I.may.be.pure you will.wash.me and more than.snow I.will.become.white

JPS 1917: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Daniel 12:10 · tree →

יִ֠תְבָּֽרֲרוּ וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּ וְיִצָּֽרְפוּ֙ רַבִּ֔ים וְהִרְשִׁ֣יעוּ רְשָׁעִ֔ים וְלֹ֥א יָבִ֖ינוּ כָּל־רְשָׁעִ֑ים וְהַמַּשְׂכִּלִ֖ים יָבִֽינוּ׃

Word for word: they.will.purge.themselves and they.will.purify.themselves and they.will.be.refined many.[people] and they.will.act.wickedly wicked.[people] and not they.will.understand any wicked.[people] and [those who].have.insight they.will.understand

JPS 1917: Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but they that are wise shall understand.

On Mova

This word in the Tanakh dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/לבן-3/