White
לָבָןStrong’s H3836lavan (la-van)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lavan is the Hebrew word usually translated “white” and “white of”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.”
Meaning
- White
How it's translated
- white 23
- to white 2
- the white 1
- and white of 1
- and white 1
- and the white 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 16
- Genesis 3
- Zechariah 3
- Exodus 1
- Ecclesiastes 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Zechariah 6:3In contextAnd in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.
- Zechariah 6:6In contextThe black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
- Genesis 30:35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
- Genesis 30:37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
- Genesis 49:12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
- Exodus 16:31And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Hebrew dictionary
לָבָן lavan · white
white
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “white” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WHITE, adjective
[G.]
- Being in the color of pure snow; snowy; not dark; as white paper; a white skin.
- Pale; destitute of color in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; as white with fear.
- Having the color of purity; pure; clean; free from spot; as white robed innocence.
- Gray; as white hair; a venerable man, white with age.
All definitions
- Pure; unblemished.
- In a scriptural sense, purified from sin; sanctified. Psalms 51:7
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.