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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

H3844

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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Get up now, resume your journey, heading for the Amorite hill country, to all its areas including the arid country, the highlands, the Shephelah, the Negev, and the coastal plain - all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:25 - Let me please cross over to see the good land on the other side of the Jordan River - this good hill country and the Lebanon!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:24 - Every place you set your foot will be yours; your border will extend from the desert to Lebanon and from the River (that is, the Euphrates) as far as the Mediterranean Sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:1 - When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan - in the hill country, the lowlands, and all along the Mediterranean coast as far as Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) -

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:17 - from Mount Halak on up to Seir, as far as Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and executed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:7 - These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Lebanon Valley to Mount Halak on up to Seir. Joshua assigned this territory to the Israelite tribes,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:5 - the territory of Byblos and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:6 - I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:3 - These were the nations: the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:33 - He produced manuals on botany, describing every kind of plant, from the cedars of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows on walls. He also produced manuals on biology, describing animals, birds, insects, and fish.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - So now order some cedars of Lebanon to be cut for me. My servants will work with your servants. I will pay your servants whatever you say is appropriate, for you know that we have no one among us who knows how to cut down trees like the Sidonians."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:9 - My servants will bring the timber down from Lebanon to the sea. I will send it by sea in raft-like bundles to the place you designate. There I will separate the logs and you can carry them away. In exchange you will supply the food I need for my royal court."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:14 - He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of the work crews.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:2 - He named it "The Palace of the Lebanon Forest"; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:19 - all the storage cities that belonged to him, and the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:17 - He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 10:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 10:21 - All of King Solomon's cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon's time.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - King Jehoash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, "A thornbush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, 'Give your daughter to my son as a wife.' Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 'With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars, and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - Send me cedars, evergreens, and algum trees from Lebanon, for I know your servants are adept at cutting down trees in Lebanon. My servants will work with your servants

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - we will get all the timber you need from Lebanon and bring it in raft-like bundles by sea to Joppa. You can then haul it on up to Jerusalem."

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:6 - and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:16 - He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; 300 measures of gold were used for each of those shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 9:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:20 - All of King Solomon's cups were made of gold, and all the household items in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest were made of pure gold. There were no silver items, for silver was not considered very valuable in Solomon's time.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:18 - King Joash of Israel sent this message back to King Amaziah of Judah, "A thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to a cedar in Lebanon, 'Give your daughter to my son as a wife.' Then a wild animal of Lebanon came by and trampled down the thorn bush.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:7 - So they provided money for the masons and carpenters, and food, beverages, and olive oil for the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring cedar timber from Lebanon to the seaport at Joppa, in accord with the edict of King Cyrus of Persia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:5 - The LORD's shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:6 - He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 72:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:16 - May there be an abundance of grain in the earth; on the tops of the mountains may it sway! May its fruit trees flourish like the forests of Lebanon! May its crops be as abundant as the grass of the earth!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:12 - The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:16 - The trees of the LORD receive all the rain they need, the cedars of Lebanon which he planted,

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:9 - King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:8 - Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions' dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:11 - Your lips drip sweetness like the honeycomb, my bride, honey and milk are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. The Lover to His Beloved:

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:15 - You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon. The Beloved to Her Lover:

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:15 - His legs are like pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Sng 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 7:4 - Your neck is like a tower made of ivory. Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:13 - for all the cedars of Lebanon, that are so high and mighty, for all the oaks of Bashan;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:34

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:34 - The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:8 - The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, 'Since you fell asleep, no woodsman comes up to chop us down!'

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:17 - In just a very short time Lebanon will turn into an orchard, and the orchard will be considered a forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:9 - The land dries up and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up and decays. Sharon is like the desert; Bashan and Carmel are parched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:2 - Let it richly bloom; let it rejoice and shout with delight! It is given the grandeur of Lebanon, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the grandeur of the LORD, the splendor of our God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 - Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, 'With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:16 - Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 60:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:13 - The splendor of Lebanon will come to you, its evergreens, firs, and cypresses together, to beautify my palace; I will bestow honor on my throne room.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:14 - Does the snow ever completely vanish from the rocky slopes of Lebanon? Do the cool waters from those distant mountains ever cease to flow?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:6 - "'For the LORD says concerning the palace of the king of Judah, "This place looks like a veritable forest of Gilead to me. It is like the wooded heights of Lebanon in my eyes. But I swear that I will make it like a wilderness whose towns have all been deserted.

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