Hebrew verb · H3835
לָבַן
labanlaw-ban'
to whiten; to make bricks
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâban
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3835is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3835
to be white
The King James renders it: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
laban is rendered "to whiten; to make bricks". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to whiten".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:3And 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.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
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.
Genesis 11:3נִלְבְּנָ֣ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to whiten, and to make bricks.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to whitenStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly… |
| to make bricksStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and they may purify themselves1
- and to purify1
- by making bricks1
- I will become white1
- let us make bricks1
- they have become white1
- they will become white1
- to make bricks1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַלְבִּֽין׃1
- הִלְבִּ֖ינוּ1
- וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּ1
- וְלַלְבֵּ֖ן1
- יַלְבִּ֔ינוּ1
- לִלְבֹּ֥ן1
- לִלְבֹּן֙1
- נִלְבְּנָ֣ה1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)2HR/Vqcc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vhcc
- HC/Vtu3mp1HC/Vtu3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVhi3mp
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVhp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common plural1HVqc1cp
Genesis
one use
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.
- נִלְבְּנָ֣הnilbenahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us make bricks
Exodus
two uses
“You shall no longer supply the people with straw for making bricks. They must go and gather their own straw.
- לִלְבֹּ֥ןlilbonpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make bricks
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?”
- לִלְבֹּן֙lilbonpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by making bricks
Psalms
one use
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- אַלְבִּֽין׃ʾalbinverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will become white
Isaiah
one use
“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.
- יַלְבִּ֔ינוּyalbinuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will become white
Daniel
two uses
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.
- וְלַלְבֵּ֖ןvelalbenconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to purify
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.
- וְיִֽתְלַבְּנ֤וּveyitlabenuHC/Vtu3mptagged: and they may purify themselves
Joel
one use
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.
- הִלְבִּ֖ינוּhilbinuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become white
The letters
Gematria 82· 732 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.