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לְבָנוֺן (
Deuteronomy 3:25 הַלְּבָנֹן van d. H.)
71 proper name, of a mountain Lebanon (Phoenician
לבנן; Assyrian
Labnanu, etc., Schr
COT on 1 Kings 5:13, Dl
Par. 103 ff.; Egyptian
Ra-man-n WMM
Asien u. Europa, 197ff.; Arabic
compare further Rob
BR ii, 435ff.493 GASm
Geogr. 45ff. Buhl
Geogr.110 and references; name probably from
whiteness of its cliffs Rob
BR ii, 493); — wooded mountain-range on northern border of Israel [usually with article
הַלּ׳ (
51 times); without article
לְבָנוֺן, 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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