Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to be (or become) white; also (as denominative from 3843) to make bricks
KJV Usage: make brick, be (made, make) white(-r)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
לָבֵן (la.ven) — 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 (la.van) — to make bricks. (Qal) to make bricks
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · לָבָן · לְבָנָה · לִבְנֶה · לָבָן · לִבְנָה · לְבָנֹון · לִבְנִי · לְבָנָה
Color | verb hif
to become white literally: to become white; hence: = process by which branches become light in color because they are stripped of their bark
Innocent | verb hif, verb hit | ≈ ברר · טהר · צרף
to become pure literally: to become white; hence: = causative process by which humans are considered free of guilt again, after having fallen into sin
Right | verb hif
Collocation: חֵטְא לבן
sins are made right literally: sins become white; hence: = causative process by which the guilt resulting from wrongdoing will be removed
verb · לְבֵנָה · מַלְבֵּן
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[לָבֵן] vb. be white Hiph. make white = purify (ethical)
shew whiteness, grow white, of fig tree, stripped by locusts
Hithp. be purified
base
[לָבַן] vb. denom. make brick base
