לַבָּה
flame
‘flame’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3827 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 1 verse
About this entry
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לבה — transliterated labbâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “flame.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Exodus (100% of all occurrences). Its lone occurrence is Exodus 3:2. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3827 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Flame 1×
- American Standard Version: Flame 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Blazing 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Flame of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3827 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3827 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3827 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3827 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- flame
- tip of weapon, point, head of spear
Word origin
Derived from להבה (lehâbâh) (H3852) — point.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
לָבָה
- , v. לבי
לבי
- (contr. of להב, to be bright; cmp. לבלב, לָבַן II); Pi. לִיבָּה, לִבָּה to blow ablaze, enkindle. B. Kam. VI, 4 (59ᵇ) בא אחר ולי׳ המְלַבֶּה חייב if a third person came (after one brought the wood and another the light), and blew the wood ablaze, he who fanned the flame is responsible; לִיבְּתָהּ הרוח וכ׳ (Y. ed. לִיבָּהוּ, Mish. Nap., Ms. H. a. R. לִבְּתוֹ, לִיבְּ׳, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 30) if the wind enkindled it, all are free. Ib. 60ᵃ לי׳ וליבתה הרוח if he blew and the wind set the fire ablaze, אם יש בְּלִבּוּיוֹ כדי ללַבּוֹתָהּ חייב if there was in his blow enough force to set it ablaze, he is guilty; Tosef. ib. VI, 22 נִיבָּה ונִיבְּתוֹ, כדי לנַבּוֹת … ed. Zuck. (Var. ל for נ).—B. Kam. l. c. מאן דתני ל׳ … ומאן דתני נ׳ וכ׳ he who teaches libbah is not at fault, nor is he who teaches nibbah (ref. for libbah to labbath, Ex. III, 2, for nibbah to נִיב, Is. LVII, 19); Y. ib. II, 5ᶜ top (ref. for nibbah to Jer. XX, 9 ‘it (the word of prophecy, v. נָבָא) was in my heart like a burning fire’). Bab. ib. l. c. כגון שלי׳ ברוח מצויה ולִבְּתוֹ וכ׳ it means, if he blew while there was ordinary air stirring, and then an unusual wind set in, and blew it ablaze. Ib. 59ᵇ מסר לו גחלת ול׳ he placed in his charge glowing coals, and he (the irresponsible person) did the blowing, opp. to מסר לו שלהבת. Y. Sabb. III, beg. 5ᶜ מְלַבֶּה עליה נעורת וכ׳ he lets hatchelled flax blaze over the hot ashes (so as to form a cover on which to place dishes for the Sabbath; Tosef. Sabb. III, 2 הדליקו). e.g. Exodus 3:2
- to flame up. Sabb. 37ᵃ קטמה ונִתְלַבְּתָה if after having covered the embers with ashes, the flames blazed up again; Y. ib. l. c. ונִתְלַבַּת.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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