Lexical Definition

‎לָבַן‎ lâban (law-ban') to whiten ^H:V
a primitive root; also as denominative from ‎לְבֵנָה‎

make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

• to be (or become) white
• *** to make bricks***

1) to be white
1a) (Hiphil)
1a1) to make white, become white, purify
1a2) to show whiteness, grow white
1b) (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical)
2) (Qal) to make bricks

See Greek: λευκαίνω

Extended Information

• (Qal) to make bricks

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎לָבֵן‎] verb be white (on ‎ֵ֯‎ see Ba^{NB 166}; Lag^{BN 33}, compare 53, 54 infers ‎לָבֹן ֗֗֗ ‎ from ‎לְבֹנָה‎; Late Hebrew id., Pi`el Hiph`il, and derivatives; Phoenician ‎לבן‎ white; Arabic milk; also be white, dialect of Yemen, Maltzan^{ZMG xxvii, 1873, 247}; apparently √ of following fourteen words, but this dubious especially in case of II. III. ‎לָבָן‎, ‎לְבָנָא‎, ‎לִבְנָה‎, II. ‎לְבוֺנָה‎, I. II. ‎לִבְנִי‎); —

Hiph`il Perfect 3 plural ‎הִלְבִּינוּ‎ Joel 1:7 Imperfect 1 singular ‎אַלְבִּין‎ Ps 51:9* 3 plural ‎יַלְבִּינוּ‎ Isa 1:18 Infinitive construct ‎וְלַלְבֵּן‎ (= ‎וּלְהַלְבֵּן‎) Dan 11:35 —

1. make white = purify (ethical) Dan 11:35 (no object expressed, || ‎צָרַף‎, ‎בָּרֵר‎).

2. shew whiteness, grow white, of fig-tree, stripped by locusts, Joel 1:7 figurative of moral purity, ‎׳‎‎כַּשֶּׁלֶג יַלְב‎ Isa 1:18 ‎׳‎‎מִשֶּׁלֶג אַלְב‎ Ps 51:9*. Hithpa`el Imperfect ‎יִתְלַבְּנוּ‎ Dan 12:10 be purified (ethical, || ‎יִתְבָּֽרֲרוּ‎). — ‎לָבַן‎, make brick, see below

[‎לָבַן‎] verb denominative make brick (as Assyrian labânu fromlibittu Dl^{HWB 370}); —

Qal Imperfect 1 plural‎נִלְבְּנָה‎ Gen 11:3 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb); Infinitive construct ‎לִלְבֹּן‎ Exod 5:7 (with accusative of congnate meaning with verb), vExod 5:14 (absolute)

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