Strong’s H3836 · Hebrew
לָבָן
lâbân
law-bawn'
Definition
white
Etymology
or (Genesis 49:12) לָבֵן; from H3835 (לָבַן);
Where the KJV renders it
- white
Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.
What the first audience heard
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