לָבָן
lâbân · H3836 · Hebrew · 29 occurrences
Meanings
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white
State in which objects are white in color
ExamplesGenesis 30:35 So he removed on that day the striped or spotted male goats, and all the speckled or spotted female goats, every one with white on it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and put them in the care of his sons.
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Laban
Laban, son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel
ExamplesGenesis 30:37 Then Jacob took fresh rods of poplar, almond, and plane trees, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white that was in the rods.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַקֵּלstaff, rod, branch 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָצָאto go out 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- הָפַךְto turn, to change, to overturn 5
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
Second object ofSecond object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָפַךְto turn, to change, to overturn 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
- שְׂאֵתlifting up 1
- שֵׁןtooth, ivory 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- מַחְשֹׂףexposing 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- צַח tsach · H6703 · brightly white, hot, scorching
- Both words are color-related and both include the sense 'white', overlapping in the sense of whiteness or brightness.
In the other Testament 1 word
- λευκός leukós · G3022 · white, light color, bright
- Direct translation equivalent denoting the color white, with both terms serving as the standard lexical rendering of whiteness across their respective language corpora.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Color002001001014
- לָבָן describes the color white, illustrated at Genesis 30:37 ("peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white that was in the rods") and Exodus 16:31 (manna "was white").
- Names of People003001007
- This entry carries no independent personal-name sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the adjective “white”, as in “So he removed on that day the striped or spotted male goats, and all the speckled or spotted female goats—every one with white on it” (Genesis 30:35). The “Names of People” domain is bundle-shared with the related personal name לָבָן (Lâbân, H3837), which it is not independently attested as here.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This word shares its written form with the place name Laban (Deuteronomy 1:1), so this common adjective carries that domain alongside its own.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3836. laban I. לָבָן adjective white; — ׳ל absolute Gen 30:35 Gen 30:13t.; construct…
I. לָבָן adjective white; — ׳ל absolute Gen 30:35 Gen 30:13t.; construct לְבֶןֿ Gen 49:12 (compare Ges§ 93, 2, R. 1 KöLgb ii, 74 BaNb 166); feminine לְבָנָה Lev 13:4 Lev 13:6t.; plural לְבָנִים Zec 1:8 Zec 1:3t.; לְבָנוֺת Gen 30:37 Gen 30:2t.; — white, of wood under bark Gen 30:37 (twice in verse) (compare Joe 1:7); of spots on goats Joel 1:35 (all J); of manna Exo 16:31 (P); garments Ecc 9:8 (sign of cheerfulness and joy); of teeth מֵחָלָב וּלְבֶןשִֿׁנַּיִם Gen 49:12 (poem in J; || מִיָּ֑יִן עֵינַיִם חַכְלִילִי) of Judah (on interpretations see Di and, differently, Marc. JastrJBL xi. (1892), 128); of horses Zec 1:8; Zec 6:3, Zec 6:6 (in vision); chfly. of diseased skin or flesh on body (בַּהֶרֶת Lev 13:4, Lev 13:19, Lev 13:24, Lev 13:25, Lev 13:26, Lev 13:38) Lev 13:4; Lev 13:10; Lev 13:13; Lev 13:16; Lev 13:17; Lev 13:19; Lev 13:24; Lev 13:38; and of hair on such spots Lev 13:3-4, Lev 13:10, Lev 13:20, Lev 13:21, Lev 13:25, Lev 13:26; + אֲדַמְדֶּ֫מֶת Lev 13:19, Lev 13:24, Lev 13:43; compare Lev 13:42; + כֵּהָה Lev 13:39 (all P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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