lavan · white

What it means

lavan (לָבָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “white”.

It is the same word as the name "Laban".

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. The color of snow and milk; what is bright and clean.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×20
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 30:35

  On that day he removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every dark one among the lambs, and he gave them into the hands of his sons.

• Genesis 30:37

  Jacob took for himself fresh rods of poplar and almond and plane tree, and peeled white stripes in them, exposing the white that was on the rods.

• Genesis 49:12

  His eyes are dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

• Exodus 16:31

  The house of Israel called its name manna. It was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

• Leviticus 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:10

  The priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

• Leviticus 13:13

  the priest shall examine him, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall declare clean the one with the sore; it has all turned white; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:16

  Or if the raw flesh changes again and turns white, he shall come to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:17

  The priest shall examine him, and if the sore has turned white, the priest shall declare clean the one with the sore; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:19

  and there is in the place of the ulcer a white swelling or a reddish white bright spot, it shall be shown to the priest.

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• Leviticus 13:21

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:24

  Or when the body has in its skin a burn by fire, and the patch of the burn becomes a bright spot, reddish white or white,

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:26

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:38

  When a man or a woman has on the skin of their body bright spots, white bright spots,

• Leviticus 13:39

  the priest shall examine them, and if on the skin of their body the bright spots are faded white, it is a mere eruption that has broken out in the skin; he is clean.

• Leviticus 13:42

  But if there is on the bald head or on the bald forehead a reddish white sore, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.

• Leviticus 13:43

  The priest shall examine him, and if the swelling of the sore is reddish white on his bald head or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the body,

• Ecclesiastes 9:8

  At every time let your garments be white, and let oil on your head not be lacking.

• Zechariah 1:8

  I saw in the night, and look, a man riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtles that were in the hollow; and behind him were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

• Zechariah 6:3

  and with the third chariot, white horses; and with the fourth chariot, dappled, strong horses.

• Zechariah 6:6

  The one in which are the black horses: they are going out to the land of the north, and the white have gone out after them, and the dappled have gone out to the land of the south.”

And 5 more times.