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# לְבָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3838

**moon** — used 2 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

moon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3838/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לְבָנָה: n.f. moon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3838/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. moon, poet. (NH id.);—ל׳ Is 24:23 + 2 times; shall pale before י׳ Is 24:23 (‖ חַמָּה); shall become like sun (חַמָּה) in day of י׳’s redemption 30:26 (אוֹר הַלְּ׳); sim. of woman’s beauty, יָפָה כַלְּ׳ Ct 6:10 (‖ חַמָּה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech differs, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Lebanah (2).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.45/#tree)

בְּנֵי־לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי־חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י עַקּֽוּב׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Lebanah the.descendants of.Hagabah the.descendants of.Akkub

*JPS 1917:* the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub;

[Nehemiah 7:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.48/#tree)

בְּנֵי־לְבָנָ֥ה בְנֵי־חֲגָבָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י שַׁלְמָֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Lebanah the.descendants of.Hagabah the.descendants of.Shalmai

*JPS 1917:* the children of Lebanah, the children of Hagaba, the children of Salmai;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3838/): 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).