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Lexicon :: Strong's H3844 - lᵊḇānôn

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לְבָנוֹן
Transliteration
lᵊḇānôn
Pronunciation
leb-aw-nohn'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1074e

Strong’s Definitions

לְבָנוֹן Lᵉbânôwn, leb-aw-nohn'; from H3825; (the) white mountain (from its snow); Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine:—Lebanon.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x

The KJV translates Strong's H3844 in the following manner: Lebanon (71x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 71x
The KJV translates Strong's H3844 in the following manner: Lebanon (71x).
  1. Lebanon = "whiteness"

    1. a wooded mountain range on the northern border of Israel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לְבָנוֹן Lᵉbânôwn, leb-aw-nohn'; from H3825; (the) white mountain (from its snow); Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine:—Lebanon.
STRONGS H3844: Abbreviations
לְבָנוֺן (Deuteronomy 3:25 הַלְּבָנֹן van d. H.)71 proper name, of a mountain Lebanon (Phoenician לבנן; Assyrian Labnanu, etc., SchrCOT on 1 Kings 5:13, DlPar. 103 ff.; Egyptian Ra-ma­n-n WMMAsien u. Europa, 197ff.; Arabic bdb052701compare further RobBR ii, 435ff.493 GASmGeogr. 45ff. BuhlGeogr.110 and references; name probably from whiteness of its cliffs RobBR ii, 493); — wooded mountain-range on northern border of Israel [usually with article הַלּ׳ (51 times); without articleלְבָנוֺן, in poetry and late Hosea 14:8; Nahum 1:4; 2 Kings 19:23 = Isaiah 37:24; Ezekiel 31:15, 16; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 29:17; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 40:16; Jeremiah 18:14; Habakkuk 2:17; Zechariah 10:10; Zechariah 11:1; Psalm 29:6; Songs 4:8 (twice in verse); Songs 4:11, 15; with ה locative לְבָב֫וֺנָה 1 Kings 5:28a]; perhaps first mentioned in defining a locality, as הַר הַלְּבָנוֺן, Judges 3:3 (E according to GFM; this combination only here), but also in early prophets, then in D, and later; — in defining a locality Joshua 9:1; בִּקְעַת הַלּ׳ Joshua 11:17; Joshua 12:7 (side of Baal Gad); as a marked feature, in describing extent of land Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 3:25; Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:4; Joshua 13:5 (כָּלהַֿל) Joshua 13:6 (all D), 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6; Jeremiah 22:26; Zechariah 10:10; אשׁהַל׳ ר׳ Jeremiah 22:6 (figurative of royal house of Judah), as a height Songs 4:8 (twice in verse); מִגְדַּל הַל׳ Songs 7:5 i.e. a tower built on Lebanon; שֶׁלֶג ל׳ Jeremiah 18:14 snow of L.; L. as source of streams Songs 4:15; יֵין ל׳ Hosea 14:8; most often, however, as bearing forests, especially of cedars, אַרְזֵי הַלּ׳ Judges 9:15 (in allegory; perhaps J, according to GFM), Isaiah 2:13; Isaiah 14:8; Psalm 29:5; Psalm 104:16, compare 1 Kings 5:13; 1 Kings 5:20; 1 Kings 5:23; 1 Kings 5:28 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 2:7 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 2:15, 2 Kings 14:9 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 25:18 (twice in verse) (in allegory), Jeremiah 22:23; Ezekiel 17:3; Ezekiel 27:5; Ezekiel 31:3, 15, 16; Zechariah 11:1; Ezra 3:7; Psalm 92:13; Songs 3:9; Songs 5:15 (simile of majestic figure); מֶּרַח ל׳ Nahum 1:4; כְּבוֺד הַלּ׳ Isaiah 35:2; Isaiah 60:13; לְכַרְמֶל וְשָׁב ל׳ Isaiah 29:17 ׅ || (יַעַר יַרְכְּתֵי ל׳ with the same reference Isaiah 37:24 = 2 Kings 19:23; הַלּ׳ = trees of Lebanon Hosea 14:6; Isaiah 10:34; Isaiah 40:16; Psalm 29:6; Psalm 72:16; ל׳ Isaiah 33:9 figurative, as mourning; חֲמַס ל׳ Habakkuk 2:17 i.e. violence done to Lebanon, probably by cutting down its trees; בֵּית יַעַר הַלּ׳ a royal mansion of Solomon, 1 Kings 7:2; and 1 Kings 10:17, 21 2 Chronicles 9:16, 20; ל׳ as home of wild beast 2 Kings 14:9 2 Chronicles 25:18 (in allegory); רֵיחַ לְבָנוֺן, of the odour of cedar forests Songs 4:11, compare Hosea 14:7 (in simile; We thinks ל׳ here to be a specific plant).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

1:7; 3:25; 3:25; 11:24

Joshua

1:4; 9:1; 11:17; 12:7; 13:5; 13:6

Judges

3:3; 9:15

1 Kings

5:13; 5:13; 7:2; 9:19; 10:17; 10:21

2 Kings

14:9; 14:9; 19:23; 19:23

2 Chronicles

2:7; 2:15; 8:6; 9:16; 9:20; 25:18; 25:18

Ezra

3:7

Psalms

29:5; 29:6; 29:6; 72:16; 92:13; 104:16

Song of Songs

3:9; 4:8; 4:8; 4:11; 4:11; 4:15; 4:15; 5:15; 7:5

Isaiah

2:13; 10:34; 14:8; 14:8; 29:17; 29:17; 33:9; 33:9; 35:2; 37:24; 37:24; 40:16; 40:16; 60:13

Jeremiah

18:14; 18:14; 22:6; 22:23; 22:26

Ezekiel

17:3; 27:5; 31:3; 31:15; 31:15; 31:16; 31:16

Hosea

14:6; 14:7; 14:8; 14:8

Nahum

1:4; 1:4

Habakkuk

2:17; 2:17

Zechariah

10:10; 10:10; 11:1; 11:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3844 matches the Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (lᵊḇānôn),
which occurs 71 times in 64 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 1:7–Jer 22:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - ‘Turn and set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the [fn]Shephelah and in the [fn]Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon H3844, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:25 - ‘Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, [fn]that good hill country and Lebanon H3844.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - “Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon H3844, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the [fn]western sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - “From the wilderness and this Lebanon H3844, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 -

Now it happened when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the [fn]Shephelah and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon H3844, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir, even as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon H3844 [fn]at the foot of Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them down and put them to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 -

Now these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck down beyond the Jordan toward the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon H3844 even as far as Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - and the land of the Gebalite, and all of Lebanon H3844, to the east toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon as far as [fn]Lebo-hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - “All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon H3844 as far as Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will dispossess them from before the sons of Israel; only allot it to Israel for an inheritance as I have commanded you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon H3844, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as [fn]Lebo-hamath.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - “And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in [fn]truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon H3844.’
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon H3844 even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “So now, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon H3844, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - “My servants will bring them down from Lebanon H3844 to the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place where you [fn]direct me, and I will have them broken up there, and you shall carry them away. Then you shall accomplish my desire by giving food to my household.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - And he sent them to Lebanon H3844, 10,000 a month in [fn]shifts; they were in Lebanon H3844 a month and two months at home. And Adoniram was over the forced laborers.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon H3844; its length was [fn]100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - and all the storage cities which Solomon had, and the cities for [fn]his chariots, and the cities for [fn]his horsemen, and [fn]all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon H3844, and in all the land [fn]under his rule.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - And he made 300 shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon H3844.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - Now all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon H3844 were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered [fn]valuable in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon H3844 sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon H3844, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a beast of the field that was in Lebanon H3844 passed by and trampled the thorn bush.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 -

‘Through your messengers you have [fn]reproached the Lord,

And you have said, “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon H3844;

And I [fn]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I [fn]entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - “Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon H3844, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon H3844; and behold, my servants will work with your servants,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - “And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon H3844 and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - and Baalath and all the storage cities which Solomon had, and all the cities for [fn]his chariots, and the cities for [fn]his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon H3844, and in all the land [fn]under his rule.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - And he made 300 shields of beaten gold, [fn]using [fn]300 shekels of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon H3844.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - Now all King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon H3844 were of pure gold; silver was not considered [fn]valuable in the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:18 - And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon H3844 sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon H3844, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as a wife.’ But a beast of the field that was in Lebanon H3844 passed by and trampled the thorn bush.
Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - Then they gave money to the masons and [fn]carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon H3844 to the sea at Joppa, according to the permission they had [fn]from Cyrus king of Persia.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:5 -

The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars;

Indeed, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon H3844.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 -

He makes Lebanon H3844 skip like a calf,

And Sirion like a young wild ox.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 -

May there be abundance of grain in the earth on top of the mountains;

May its fruit wave like the cedars of Lebanon H3844;

And may those from the city blossom like vegetation of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:12 -

The righteous man will [fn]flourish like the palm tree,

He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon H3844.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:16 -

The trees of Yahweh are satisfied,

The cedars of Lebanon H3844 which He planted,

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 -

“King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair

From the timber of Lebanon H3844.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8 -

Come with me from Lebanon H3844, my bride,

May you come with me from Lebanon H3844.

[fn]Journey down from the top of Amana,

From the top of Senir and Hermon,

From the dens of lions,

From the mountains of leopards.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 -

“Your lips, my bride, drip honey from the comb;

Honey and milk are under your tongue,

And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon H3844.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 -

You are a garden spring,

A well of [fn]fresh water,

And streams flowing from Lebanon H3844.”

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 -

“His legs are pillars of marble

Set on bases of fine gold;

His appearance is like Lebanon H3844

Choice as the cedars.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 -

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,

Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon

By the gate of Bath-rabbim;

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon H3844,

Which faces toward Damascus.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:13 -

And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon H3844 that are high and lifted up,

Against all the oaks of Bashan,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:34 -

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,

And Lebanon H3844 will fall [fn]by the Mighty One.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:8 -

“Even the cypress trees are glad over you, and the cedars of Lebanon H3844, saying,

‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 -

Is it not yet just a little while

[fn]Before Lebanon H3844 will be turned into a fruitful orchard,

And the fruitful orchard will be counted as a forest?

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 -

The land mourns and languishes,

Lebanon H3844 is humiliated and withers;

Sharon is like a desert plain,

And Bashan and Carmel [fn]lose their foliage.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:2 -

It will flourish profusely

And rejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy.

The glory of Lebanon H3844 will be given to it,

The majesty of Carmel and Sharon.

They will see the glory of Yahweh,

The majesty of our God.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 -

“Through your servants you have [fn]reproached the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon H3844;

And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I will go to its [fn]highest peak, its thickest forest.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:16 -

Even Lebanon H3844 is not enough to burn,

Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:13 -

“The glory of Lebanon H3844 will come to you,

The juniper, the box tree, and the cypress together,

To adorn the place of My sanctuary with beautiful glory;

And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:14 -

‘Does the snow of Lebanon H3844 forsake the rock of the open country?

Or is the cold flowing water from a strange land ever uprooted?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah:

“You are like Gilead to Me,

Like the summit of Lebanon H3844;

Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness,

Like cities which are not inhabited.


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