Strong's Hebrew · H3835
H3835 lâban
לָבַן
law-ban'
to whiten
Looking for Greek G3835 panoûrgos? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3835. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
lâban appears 8 times in Scripture, in Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel and Joel. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to be (or become) white; to make bricks
In the King James Version
make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
Derivation
a primitive root; also as denominative from H3843 (לְבֵנָה)
Appears 8 times in Scripture
“Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.”
“Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”
““You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.”
“It has laid waste My grapevine and splintered My fig tree. It has stripped off the bark and thrown it away; the branches have turned white.”
“And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.”
““Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.”
“Some of the wise will fall so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time.”
“Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over the people, were beaten and asked, “Why have you not fulfilled your quota of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
