Hebrew adjective · H3836
לָבָן
labanlaw-bawn'
white
29 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lâbân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3836is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 22spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3836
white
The King James renders it: white.
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 "white". It stands 29 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Twenty of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 30:35That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-two different ways.
The first use
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
Genesis 30:35לָבָן֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- white23
- to white2
- and the white1
- and white1
- and white of1
- the white1
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.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 29, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
22 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
- לָבָ֔ן3
- לָבָ֑ן3
- לְבָנָ֣ה2
- לְבָנִ֑ים2
- לְלָבָ֑ן2
- הַלָּבָ֔ן1
- וְהַלְּבָנִ֔ים1
- וּלְבֶן־1
- וּלְבָנִֽים׃1
- לָבָן֙1
- לָבָ֗ן1
- לָבָ֖ן1
and 10 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular11HAamsa
- adjective · feminine singular7HAafsa
- adjective · feminine plural3HAafpa
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular2HR/Aamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Aamsc
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Td/Aampa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
Genesis
four uses
That very day Laban removed all the streaked or spotted male goats and every speckled or spotted female goat—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored lamb, and he placed them under the care of his sons.
- לָבָן֙lavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
Jacob, however, took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled the bark, exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
- לְבָנ֔וֹתlevanotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: white
- הַלָּבָ֔ןhalavanthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the white
His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
- וּלְבֶן־uleven-conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and white of
Exodus
one use
Now the house of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
Leviticus
twenty uses
The priest is to examine the infection on his skin, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the sore appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease. After the priest examines him, he must pronounce him unclean.
- לָבָ֗ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
If, however, the spot on his skin is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
- לְבָנָ֨הlevanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
- לָבָ֑ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
The priest will examine him, and if there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,
- לְבָנָה֙levanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
- לָבָ֑ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
the priest shall examine him, and if the disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since it has all turned white, he is clean.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
But if the raw flesh changes and turns white, he must go to the priest.
- לְלָבָ֑ןlelavanpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to white
The priest will reexamine him, and if the infection has turned white, the priest is to pronounce the infected person clean; then he is clean.
- לְלָבָ֑ןlelavanpreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to white
and a white swelling or a reddish-white spot develops where the boil was, he must present himself to the priest.
- לְבָנָ֔הlevanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
- לְבָנָ֣הlevanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
The priest shall examine it, and if it appears to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil.
- לָבָ֑ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in it, and it is not beneath the skin and has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
When there is a burn on someone’s skin and the raw area of the burn becomes reddish-white or white,
- לְבָנָ֥הlevanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
- לְבָנָֽה׃levanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
the priest must examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection.
- לָבָ֜ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
But if the priest examines it and there is no white hair in the spot, and it is not beneath the skin but has faded, the priest shall isolate him for seven days.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
When a man or a woman has white spots on the skin,
- לְבָנֹֽת׃levanotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: white
the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.
- לְבָנֹ֑תlevanotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: white
But if there is a reddish-white sore on the bald head or forehead, it is an infectious disease breaking out on it.
- לָבָ֣ןlavanadjective · masculine singulartagged: white
The priest is to examine him, and if the swelling of the infection on his bald head or forehead is reddish-white like a skin disease,
- לְבָנָ֣הlevanahadjective · feminine singulartagged: white
Ecclesiastes
one use
Let your garments always be white, and never spare the oil for your head.
- לְבָנִ֑יםlevanimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: white
Zechariah
three uses
I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- וּלְבָנִֽים׃ulevanimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and white
the third white horses, and the fourth dappled horses—all of them strong.
- לְבָנִ֑יםlevanimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: white
The one with the black horses is going toward the land of the north, the one with the white horses toward the west, and the one with the dappled horses toward the south.”
- וְהַלְּבָנִ֔יםvehalevanimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and the 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.