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title: לָבָן — white · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לָבָן (3836), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 29 times: white. BDB 1906: adj. white. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לָבָן

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«לָבָן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **white** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 29 times · **Key:** 3836 · **BDB:** לָבָן

### Glosses

white (25); \[horses\] (1); \[is\].white (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

white [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3836/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. white [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3836/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. white;—ל׳ abs. Gn 30:35 + 13 times; cstr. לְבֶן־ Gn 49:12 (cf. Ges§ 93, 2, R. 1 Kö Lgb ii, 74 BaNB 166); f. לְבָנָה Lv 13:4 + 6 times; pl. לְבָנִים Zc 1:8 + 3 times; לְבָנוֹת Gn 30:37 + 2 times;—white, of wood under bark Gn 30:37(×2) (cf. Jo 1:7); of spots on goats v 35 (all J); of manna Ex 16:31 (P); garments Ec 9:8 (sign of cheerfulness and joy); of teeth וּלְבֶן־שִׁנַּיִם מֵחָלָב Gn 49:12 (poem in J; ‖ הַכְלִילִי עֵינַיִם מִיָּ֑יִן) of Judah (on interpr. v. Di and, differently, Marc. JastrJBL xi. (1892), 128); of horses Zc 1:8; 6:3, 6 (in vision); chfly. of diseased skin or flesh on body (בַּהֶרֶת Lv 13:4, 19, 24, 25, 26, 38) Lv 13:4, 10, 13, 16, 17, 19, 24, 38; and of hair on such spots 13:3, 4, 10, 20, 21, 25, 26; + אֲדַמְדֶּ֫מֶת 13:19, 24, 43, cf. v 42; + כֵּהָה v 39 (all P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לָבָן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3836/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 49:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.49.12/)

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חַכְלִילִ֥י עֵינַ֖יִם מִיָּ֑יִן וּלְבֶן־שִׁנַּ֖יִם מֵחָלָֽב׃פ

*Word for word:* dark of.eyes more than.wine and white of.teeth more than.milk

*JPS 1917:* His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

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[Leviticus 13:38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.13.38/)

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וְאִישׁ֙ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֔ה כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְעוֹר־בְּשָׂרָ֖ם בֶּהָרֹ֑ת בֶּהָרֹ֖ת לְבָנֹֽת׃

*Word for word:* and a.man or a.woman (dm) it.will.be on the.skin their.flesh their bright.spots bright.spots white

*JPS 1917:* And if a man or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;

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