Moon
לְבָנָהStrong’s H3842levanah (le-va-nah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Levanah is the Hebrew word usually translated “moon” and “like the full moon”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?”
Meaning
- Moon (as white)
How it's translated
- the moon 2
- like the full moon 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Song of Solomon 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 24:23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
- Isaiah 30:26Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Hebrew dictionary
לְבָנָה levanah · moon
moon (as white)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “moon” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MOON, noun
- The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night.
- A month.
All definitions and other forms of “moon”
MOON'-BEAM, noun
A ray of light from the moon
MOON'-CALF, noun
A monster; a false conception.
- A mole or mass of fleshy matter generated in the uterus.
- A dolt; a stupid fellow.
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.