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לְבָנוֹן

Lᵉbânôwn · H3844 · Hebrew · proper noun · 71 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 places

Meanings

  1. Lebanon

    A range of mountains north of Israel, known for the cedar and other trees growing there

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 1:7 ‘Turn and set out on your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Negev, by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

    Deuteronomy 3:25 ‘Please let me cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that good hill country, and Lebanon.’

    Deuteronomy 11:24 “Every place on which the sole of your foot steps shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.

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

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

30 occurrences in 4 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

28 occurrences in 17 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 Landforms003001008
Lebanon is the well-known mountain range noted for its cedars, so this entry is classed as a name for a landform.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3844. Lebanon לְבָנוֺן (Deu 3:25 הַלְּבָנֹן van d. H.)71 proper name, of a mountain…
H3844. Lebanon
לְבָנוֺן (Deu 3:25 הַלְּבָנֹן van d. H.)71
proper name, of a mountain Lebanon (Phoenician לבנן; Assyrian Labnanu, etc., SchrCOT on 1Ki 5:13, DlPar. 103 ff.; Egyptian Ra-m­n-n WMMAsien u.Europa,197ff.; Arabic compare further RobBR ii, 435ff.493GASmGeogr.45ff. BuhlGeogr.110 and references; name probably from whiteness of its cliffs RobBR ii, 493); — wooded mountain-range on northern border of Israel [usually with article ׳הַלּ (51 t.); without articleלְבָנוֺן, in poetry and late Hos 14:8; Nah 1:4; 2Ki 19:23 = Isa 37:24; Eze 31:15-16, Isa 14:8; Isa 29:17; Isa 33:9; Isa 40:16; Jer 18:14; Hab 2:17; Zec 10:10; Zec 11:1; Psa 29:6; Son 4:8 (twice in verse); Son 4:11, Son 4:15; with ה locative לְבָב֫וֺנָה 1 Kings 5:28a]; perhaps first mentioned in defining a locality, as הַלְּבָנוֺן הַר, Jdg 3:3 (E according to GFM; this combination only here), but also in early prophets, then in D, and later; — in defining a locality Jos 9:1; הַלּ ׳בִּקְעַת Jos 11:17; Jos 12:7 (side of Baal Gad); as a marked feature, in describing extent of land Deu 1:7; Deu 3:25; Deu 11:24; Jos 1:4; Jos 13:5 (כָּלהַֿל) Jos 13:6 (all D), 1Ki 9:19 2Ch 8:6; Jer 22:26; Zec 10:10; ׳אשׁהַל׳ר Jer 22:6 (figurative of royal house of Judah), as a height Son 4:8 (twice in verse); הַל ׳מִגְדַּל Cant 7:5 i.e. a tower built on Lebanon; ל ׳שֶׁלֶג Jer 18:14 snow of L.; L. as source of streams Son 4:15; ל ׳יֵין Hos 14:8; most often, however, as bearing forests, especially of cedars, הַלּ ׳אַרְזֵי Jdg 9:15 (in allegory; perhaps J, according to GFM), Isa 2:13; Isa 14:8; Psa 29:5; Psa 104:16, compare 1Ki 5:13; 1 Kings 5:20; 1 Kings 5:23; 1 Kings 5:28 (twice in verse); 2Ch 2:7 (twice in verse); 2Ch 2:15, 2Ki 14:9 (twice in verse) = 2Ch 25:18 (twice in verse) (in allegory), Jer 22:23; Eze 17:3; Eze 27:5; Eze 31:3, Eze 31:15, Eze 31:16; Zec 11:1; Ezr 3:7; Psa 92:13; Son 3:9; Son 5:15 (simile of majestic figure); ל ׳מֶּרַח Nah 1:4; הַלּ ׳כְּבוֺד Isa 35:2; Isa 60:13; ל ׳וְשָׁב לְכַרְמֶל Isa 29:17 ׅ || ל ׳יַרְכְּתֵי (יַעַר with the same reference Isa 37:24 = 2Ki 19:23; ׳הַלּ = trees of Lebanon Hos 14:6; Isa 10:34; Isa 40:16; Psa 29:6; Psa 72:16; ׳ל Isa 33:9 figurative, as mourning; ל ׳חֲמַס Hab 2:17 i.e. violence done to Lebanon, probably by cutting down its trees; הַלּ יַעַר ׳בֵּית a royal mansion of Solomon, 1Ki 7:2; and 1Ki 10:17, 1Ki 10:21 2Ch 9:16, 2Ch 9:20; ׳ל as home of wild beast 2Ki 14:9 2Ch 25:18 (in allegory); לְבָנוֺן רֵיחַ, of the odour of cedar forests Son 4:11, compare Hos 14:7 (in simile; We thinks ׳ל here to be a specific plant).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of Landforms71 occurrences

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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