levanon · Lebanon

What it means

levanon (לְבָנוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Lebanon”.

A mountain range north of Israel. The name means "white," perhaps for its snow.

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.

The place

• Lebanon

  Today: Lebanon (Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges)

  A mountain range north of Israel, famous for its cedars; today it gives its name to the country of Lebanon.

  Solomon asked for cedar wood from Lebanon to build the temple (1 Kgs 5:6). The Psalms compare the righteous to its cedars (Ps 92:12).

  Deuteronomy 3:251 Kings 5:6Psalms 92:12Isaiah 35:2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×6
• Judges×2
• 1 Kings×9
• 2 Kings×4
• 2 Chronicles×9
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×5
• Song of Songs×7
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×5
• Hosea×3
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×2

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Turn, set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorite and to all its neighbors, in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, in the Negev, and on the coast of the sea, the land of the Canaanite, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

• Deuteronomy 3:25

  Please let me cross over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country and Lebanon.”

• Deuteronomy 11:24

  Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea shall be your territory.

• Joshua 1:4

  From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, shall be your territory.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

• Joshua 11:17

  from Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And all their kings he took and struck them and put them to death.

• Joshua 12:7

  And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

• Joshua 13:5

  and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.

• Joshua 13:6

  All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will dispossess them before the sons of Israel. Only allot it to Israel as an inheritance, just as I have commanded you.

• Judges 3:3

  the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanite, the Sidonian, and the Hivite who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as the entrance of Hamath.

• Judges 9:15

  The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come, take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’

• 1 Kings 4:33

  And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that comes out in the wall; and he spoke of the beasts, and of the birds, and of the creeping things, and of the fish.

• 1 Kings 5:6

  And now, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon; and my servants shall be with your servants, and the wages of your servants I will give you according to all that you say; for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

• 1 Kings 5:9

  My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts on the sea to the place that you will send word to me, and I will break them up there, and you will carry them away; and you will do my pleasure by giving food for my house.”

• 1 Kings 5:14

  And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month in shifts: a month they would be in Lebanon, two months at home; and Adoniram was over the forced labor.

• 1 Kings 7:2

  And he built the house of the Forest of Lebanon: a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of pillars of cedar, with beams of cedar on the pillars.

• 1 Kings 9:19

  and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and the cities for chariots, and the cities for horsemen, and the desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion.

• 1 Kings 10:17

  and three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the house of the Forest of Lebanon.

• 1 Kings 10:21

  And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the house of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; there was no silver; it was not considered in the days of Solomon as anything.

• 2 Kings 14:9

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then an animal of the field that is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

• 2 Kings 19:23

  Through your messengers you have taunted Adonai, and you have said, ‘With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon; I will cut down its tall cedars, its choicest cypresses; I will enter its farthest lodging, the forest of its orchard.

• 2 Chronicles 2:8

  And send me cedar timber, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut the timber of Lebanon. And look, my servants will be with your servants,

• 2 Chronicles 2:16

  And we will cut timber from Lebanon, according to all your need, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, and you will take it up to Jerusalem.”

• 2 Chronicles 8:6

  and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities of the chariots and the cities of the horsemen, and all the desire of Solomon, what he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

• 2 Chronicles 9:16

  and three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:20

  All the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of fine gold; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 25:18

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that is in Lebanon sent to the cedar that is in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife.’ Then an animal of the field that is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thistle.

• Ezra 3:7

  And they gave money to the stonecutters and to the craftsmen, and food and drink and oil to the Sidonians and to the Tyrians, to bring cedar wood from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia for them.

• Psalms 29:5

  The voice of YHWH breaks cedars; and YHWH breaks the cedars of Lebanon.

• Psalms 29:6

  He makes them skip like a calf, Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox.

• Psalms 72:16

  May there be abundance of grain in the land, on the top of the mountains; may its fruit wave like Lebanon; and may those of the city flourish like the grass of the earth.

• Psalms 92:12

  The righteous will flourish like the palm tree; like a cedar in Lebanon he will grow.

• Psalms 104:16

  The trees of YHWH are satisfied, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted,

• Song of Songs 3:9

  King Solomon made for himself a palanquin from the trees of Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 4:8

  With me from Lebanon, bride, with me from Lebanon you will come; you will look from the peak of Amana, from the peak of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountains of leopards.

• Song of Songs 4:11

  Your lips drip honeycomb, bride; honey and milk are under your tongue, and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 4:15

  a spring of gardens, a well of living water, and flowing streams from Lebanon.

• Song of Songs 5:15

  His legs are pillars of alabaster set on bases of pure gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

• Song of Songs 7:4

  Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

• Isaiah 2:13

  and against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up, and against all the oaks of Bashan;

And 31 more times.