3835 - laban

Strong's Concordance

Original word: לָבַן
Transliteration: laban
Definition (short): brick
Definition (full): to be, white, to make bricks

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

A primitive root; to be (or become) white; also (as denominative from lbenah) to make bricks -- make brick, be (made, make) white(-r).

see HEBREW lbenah

KJV: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
NASB: They said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
KJV: Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
NASB: "You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
KJV: And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?
NASB: Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?"
KJV: Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
NASB: Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
KJV: Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
NASB: "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool.