לָבָן lavan

Hebrew word for “white” · Strong’s H3836 · used 29 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

white

How it is translated

Glosses given for lavan in context, with how often each is used:

• white 27
• white wood 1
• white horses 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (16), Genesis 30 (2), Zechariah 6 (2), Genesis 49 (1), Exodus 16 (1), Ecclesiastes 9 (1), Zechariah 1 (1)

Forms

• לבן 11
• לבנה 7
• ללבן 2
• לבנת 2
• לבנים 2
• לבנות 1
• הלבן 1
• ולבן 1
• ולבנים 1
• והלבנים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with lavan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עוֹר or “skin” 11
• בַּהֶרֶת boheret “bright spot” 7
• נֶגַע nega “plague” 8
• שֵׂעָר sear “hair” 7
• כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 13
• הָפַךְ haphakh “to overturn” 8
• בָּשָׂר basar “flesh” 9
• צָרַעַת tsaraat “leprosy” 6
• רָאָה raah “to see” 12
• הִנֵּה hinneh “behold” 10
• אֲדַמְדָּם adamdam “reddish” 4
• מַרְאֶה mareh “appearance” 5

Key verses

The verses using lavan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 30:35 — And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white…
• Genesis 30:37 — And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
• Exodus 16:31 — And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
• Leviticus 13:3 — And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the…
• Leviticus 13:4 — If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall…
• Leviticus 13:10 — And the priest shall see and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
• Leviticus 13:16 — Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;
• Leviticus 13:20 — And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it…
• Ecclesiastes 9:8 — Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
• Zechariah 1:8 — I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses,…
• Zechariah 6:3 — And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
• Zechariah 6:6 — The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.