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# לִבְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3841

**Libnah** — used 18 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Libnah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3841/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לִבְנָה: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3841/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in SW. Judah, exact site unknown, captured by Joshua, according to D, Jos 10:29(×2), 31, 32, 39; 12:15 (all D), 15:42 (P); Levit. city 21:13 (P) = 1 Ch 6:42; further 2 K 8:22 = 2 Ch 21:10, 2 K 19:8 = Is 37:8, 2 K 23:31; 24:18 = Je 52:1; 𝔊 Λεβνα. Vid. LagOnom. 247, 135, 26; 2nd ed. 273 Λεβνα; BuhlGeogr. 193. station of Isr. in wilderness, between רִמֹּן פָּ֑רֶץ and רִסָּה Nu 33:20, 21 (perhaps = לָבֶן Dt 1:1); 𝔊 Λεμωνα, A 𝔊L Λεβωνα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Libnah (17); of Libnah (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:42](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.42/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.42/#tree)

לִבְנָ֥ה וָעֶ֖תֶר וְעָשָֽׁן׃

*Word for word:* Libnah and Ether and Ashan

*JPS 1917:* Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan;

[Joshua 12:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.12.15/#tree)

מֶ֤לֶךְ לִבְנָה֙ אֶחָ֔ד מֶ֥לֶךְ עֲדֻלָּ֖ם אֶחָֽד׃

*Word for word:* the.king of.Libnah one the.king of.Adullam one

*JPS 1917:* the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3841/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).