Strong H38352 sensesלָבֵן

to whiten · to make bricks

Transliteration
lâban
Pronunciation
law-ban'

The 2 senses of Strong H3835

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H3835 appears in 8 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. to whitenH3835Abe white5 verses · 4 books
  2. to make bricksלָבַןH3835B(Qal) to make bricks3 verses · Genesis, Exodus

General definition

A primitive root; to be (or become) white; also (as denominative from H3843) to make bricks: - make {brick} be ({made} make) white (-r).

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • make4
  • be1
  • brick1
  • white1
  • whiter1

First verses

  1. Genesis 11:3
    And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
  2. Exodus 5:7
    Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
  3. Exodus 5:14
    And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
  4. Psalms 51:7
    Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  5. Isaiah 1:18
    Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
  6. Daniel 11:35
    And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for a time appointed.
  7. Daniel 12:10
    Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
  8. Joel 1:7
    He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.