lavan · make bricks

What it means

lavan (לָבַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “make bricks”.

Another form of the same root means be white.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To become snow-colored; be cleansed of sin.
2. To mold clay and straw into bricks for building.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• make ×3
• I will be whiter ×1
• have turned white ×1
• made white ×1
• making bricks ×1
• they will be white ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Daniel×2
• Joel×1

• Genesis 11:3

  They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give straw to the people to make bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 5:14

  And the supervisors of the sons of Israel, whom the taskmasters of Pharaoh had set over them, were beaten, being told, “Why have you not completed your quota of making bricks as before, both yesterday and today?”

• Psalms 51:7

  Cleanse me from sin with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

• Isaiah 1:18

  Come now, and let us argue it out, says YHWH. If your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.

• Daniel 11:35

  And some of the insightful will stumble, to refine them and to purify and to make them white, until the time of the end; for it is yet for the appointed time.

• Daniel 12:10

  Many will be purified and made white and refined; and the wicked will act wickedly, and none of the wicked will understand, but the insightful will understand.

• Joel 1:7

  It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree splinters; it has stripped it bare and thrown it down; its branches have turned white.