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לִבְנָה

Libnâh · H3841 · Hebrew · proper noun · 18 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Meanings

  1. Libnah

    Location, possibly to be identified with Laban in Sinai peninsula, between Rimmon-Perez and Rissah; Israelites encamped there on their way from Egypt to Canaan

    Examples

    Numbers 33:20 They journeyed from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.

    Numbers 33:21 They journeyed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

  2. Libnah

    Town; located in the foothills; territory of Judah; assigned to clan of Aaron, tribe of Levi

    Examples

    Joshua 10:29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

    Joshua 10:31 And Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish, and they camped by it and fought against it.

    Joshua 10:32 And the LORD handed Lachish over to Israel; and he captured it on the second day, and struck it and every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

11 occurrences in 5 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of Locations003001010
Libnah is a town conquered during Joshua's southern campaign (Joshua 10:29-31) and later a Levitical city, so this entry is classed as a place designation.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3841. Libnah לִבְנָה proper name, of a location 1. city in southwest Judah, exact site…
H3841. Libnah
לִבְנָה proper name, of a location 1. city in southwest Judah, exact site unknown, captured by Joshua, according to D, Jos 10:29 (twice in verse); Jos 10:31-32, Jos 10:39; Jos 12:15 (all D), Jos 15:42 (P); Levitical city Jos 21:13 (P) = 1Ch 6:42; further 2Ki 8:22 2Ch 21:10; 2Ki 19:8 = Isa 37:8; 2Ki 23:31; 2Ki 24:18 = Jer 52:1; ᵐ5 Λεβνα. See LagOnom. 274, 135, 26; 2nd ed. 273 Λεβνα; BuhlGeogr. 193.
2 station of Israel in wilderness, between מָּ֑רֶץ רִמֹּן and רִסָּה Num 33:20-21, (perhaps = לָבָן Deu 1:1); ᵐ5 Λεμωνα, A ᵐ5L Λεβωνα.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

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