# לָבַן (lavan)

Israeli respelling: la-van. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H3835. 8 Old Testament occurrences.

to be (or become) white; to make bricks

King James renderings: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/lavan-h3835

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/3) — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mort…
- [Exodus 5:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/7) — Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- [Exodus 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/5/14) — And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not…
- [Psalms 51:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/51/7) — Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- [Isaiah 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/18) — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red li…
- [Daniel 11:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/35) — And some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make them white, even to the time of the end: because it is…
- [Daniel 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/12/10) — Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise…
- [Joel 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/1/7) — He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.