To whiten
לָבֵןStrong’s H3835laven (la-ven)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Laven is the Hebrew word usually translated “let us make bricks”, “make bricks” and “making bricks”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“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 yet for a time appointed.”
Meaning
- To be white(Hiphil) · (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical)
- (Qal) to make bricks
How it's translated
- let us make bricks 1
- to make bricks 1
- by making bricks 1
- i will become white 1
- they will become white 1
- and to purify 1
- and they may purify themselves 1
- they have become white 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Daniel 2
- Genesis 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Joel 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 12:10In contextMany shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
- Genesis 11:3And 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 morter.
- Exodus 5:7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
- Exodus 5:14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
- Psalms 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
- Isaiah 1:18Come 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 like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Hebrew dictionary
לָבֵן laven · to whiten
1) to be white 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to make white, become white, purify 1a2) to show whiteness, grow white 1b) (Hithpael) to become white, be purified (ethical)
לָבַן lavan · to make bricks
(Qal) to make bricks
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “whiten” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHITEN, verb transitive
hwitn. To make white; to bleach; to blanch; as, to whiten cloth.
All definitions and other forms of “whiten”
WHITEN, verb intransitive
To grow white; to turn or become white. The hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.