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title: לְבָנָה — moon · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לְבָנָה (3838), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: moon. BDB 1906: n.f. moon. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לְבָנָה

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«לְבָנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **moon** — 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:** 2 times · **Key:** 3838 · **BDB:** לְבָנָה

### Glosses

of.Lebanah (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

moon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3838/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. moon [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3838/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. moon, poet. (NH id.);—ל׳ Is 24:23 + 2 times; shall pale before י׳ Is 24:23 (‖ חַמָּה); shall become like sun (חַמָּה) in day of י׳’s redemption 30:26 (אוֹר הַלְּ׳); sim. of woman’s beauty, יָפָה כַלְּ׳ Ct 6:10 (‖ חַמָּה).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לְבָנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3838/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 2:45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.45/)

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בְּנֵי־לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי־חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י עַקּֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Lebanah the.descendants of.Hagabah the.descendants of.Akkub

*JPS 1917:* the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub;

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[Nehemiah 7:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.48/)

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בְּנֵי־לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי־חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י שַׁלְמָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Lebanah the.descendants of.Hagabah the.descendants of.Shalmai

*JPS 1917:* the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai;

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