1) to be white 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to make white, become white, purify 1a2) to show whiteness, grow white 1b) (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical) 2) (Qal) to make bricks Part of Speech: verb A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root Same Word by TWOT Number: 1074b, 1074h
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[לָבֵן] verbbe white (on ֵ֯ see BaNB 166; LagBN 33, compare 53, 54 infers לָבֹן ֗֗֗ from לְבֹנָה; Late Hebrew id., Pi`el Hiph`il, and derivatives; Phoenician לבןwhite; Arabic milk; also be white, dialect of Yemen, MaltzanZMG xxvii, 1873, 247; apparently √ of following fourteen words, but this dubious especially in case of II. III. לָבָן, לְבָנָא, לִבְנָה, II. לְבוֺנָה, I. II. לִבְנִי); —
1make white = purify (ethical) Daniel 11:35 (no object expressed, "" צָרַף, בָּרֵר).
2shew whiteness, grow white, of fig-tree, stripped by locusts, Joel 1:7; figurative of moral purity, ׳כַּשֶּׁלֶג יַלְבIsaiah 1:18; ׳מִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְבPsalm 51:9.
Hithpa`elImperfectיִתְלַבְּנוּDaniel 12:10be purified (ethical, "" יִתְבָּֽרֲרוּ). — לָבַן, make brick, see below
QalImperfect1pluralנִלְבְּנָהGenesis 11:3 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb); Infinitive constructלִלְבֹּןExodus 5:7 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), Exodus 5:14 (absolute)
Genesis 11:3 HEB:רֵעֵ֗הוּ הָ֚בָה נִלְבְּנָ֣ה לְבֵנִ֔ים וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה NAS: Come, let us make bricks and burn KJV: Go to, let us make brick, INT: another Come make brick and burn
Exodus 5:7 HEB:תֶּ֧בֶן לָעָ֛ם לִלְבֹּ֥ן הַלְּבֵנִ֖ים כִּתְמ֣וֹל NAS: straw to make brick as previously; KJV: straw to make brick, INT: straw the people to make brick before
Exodus 5:14 HEB:כִלִּיתֶ֨ם חָקְכֶ֤ם לִלְבֹּן֙ כִּתְמ֣וֹל שִׁלְשֹׁ֔ם NAS: today in making brick as previously? KJV: your task in making brick both yesterday INT: completed your required making yesterday before that time
Psalm 51:7 HEB:תְּ֝כַבְּסֵ֗נִי וּמִשֶּׁ֥לֶג אַלְבִּֽין׃ NAS: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than KJV: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. INT: wash snow shall be whiter
Isaiah 1:18 HEB:כַּשָּׁנִים֙ כַּשֶּׁ֣לֶג יַלְבִּ֔ינוּ אִם־ יַאְדִּ֥ימוּ NAS: are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; KJV: be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; INT: scarlet snow white Though are red
Daniel 11:35 HEB:בָּהֶ֛ם וּלְבָרֵ֥ר וְלַלְבֵּ֖ן עַד־ עֵ֣ת NAS: purge and make them pure until KJV: them, and to purge, and to make [them] white, [even] to the time INT: to refine purge and make until time
Daniel 12:10 HEB: יִ֠תְבָּֽרֲרוּ וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּ וְיִצָּֽרְפוּ֙ רַבִּ֔ים NAS: will be purged, purified and refined, KJV: shall be purified, and made white, and tried; INT: will be purged purified and refined Many
Joel 1:7 HEB:חֲשָׂפָהּ֙ וְהִשְׁלִ֔יךְ הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ שָׂרִיגֶֽיהָ׃ NAS: Their branches have become white. KJV: the branches thereof are made white. INT: bare and cast have become their branches