לְבָנָה
moon
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
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3842 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. 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.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 24:23 הַ/לְּבָנָ֔ה ptcl def.art + n c fs Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
- Isaiah 30:26 הַ/לְּבָנָה֙ ptcl def.art + n c fs Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the hurt of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
לבנה — transliterated lᵉbânâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “moon.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in Isaiah. Debuting at Song of Solomon 6:10, it then recurs through the corpus. It shares a root with לבן, לבן and לבנה. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3842 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 2 verses 67%
- Song of Solomon 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Moon 3×
- American Standard Version: Moon 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Moon 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Moon 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3842 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3842 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3842 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3842 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- moon (as white)
Word origin
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).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from לבן (lâban) (H3835) — to be white.
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.
בני
- [to combine,] to build. Sabb. XII, 1 הַבּוֹנֶה he who builds (on the Sabbath). Ib.] 102ᵇ משום בונה (isguilty) because it is one of the labors classified under ‘building’; a. fr.—Metaph. to educate, train. Ber. 64ᵃ (ref. to Is. LIV, 93) א"ת בָּנַיִךְ אלא בוֹנַיִּךְ read not banayikh (thy children), but bonayikh (thy builders, trainers); v. בַּנָּאִים.—Ex. R. s. 23 (play on b’noth, Cant. I, 5) בּוֹנוֹת וכ׳ the authorities directing the building of Jerusalem; v. Pi.—Ḥull. 78ᵇ זה בנה אב, v. אָב, a. בִּנְיָן. [Tosef. Par. VII (VI), 4 בְּנָאוֹ ed. Zuck., v. כָּנַן.] e.g. Isaiah 54:93
- 1. to be built up. Y. B. Bath. III, 14ᵇ, a. fr. לְהִיבָּנוֹת, לִיבָּנוֹת.
- 2. (denom. of בֵּן) to get children. Gen. R. s. 71.
- (denom. of בֵּן) to be adopted, naturalized. Pesik. R. s. 43 נִתְבַּנּוּ בישראל they became full Israelitish citizens.
- to lay out, plan a city, determine its limits. Ex. R. l. c. the Great Sanedrin held sessions ומְבַנָּים אותה (not אותם) and determined the limits of Jerusalem; v. Snh. I, 5.—Part. Pu. מְבוּנֶּה cultivated; built (of human stature), well-proportioned. Keth. 112ᵃ; Sot. 34ᵇ היתה מְבוּנָּה על וכ׳ it (Hebron, in spite of the rocky nature of its soil) was seven times better cultivated than Zoan (one measure of its land yielding as much as did seven measures of the soil of Zoan). Ib. 42ᵇ (play on benayim, I Sam. XVII, 4) מב׳ מכל מום his build was without blemish. e.g. 1 Samuel 17:4
לְבֵנָה
- לבן to stamp, tread, cmp. לבד; v. Schr. KAT2, p. 121 note) brick. Lev. R. s. 23 (ref. to Ex. XXIV, 10, cmp. Targ. Y. ib.) זה עד שלא נגאלו אבל משנגאלו היכן היתה דרכה של ל׳ להנתן וכ׳ this (brick of sapphire under his feet) was before they (the Israelites) were redeemed, but after their redemption the brick was placed where it belonged. Kel. IX, 6 ל׳ שבלעה וכ׳ a brick in which a metal ring has entirely disappeared; Tosef. Mikv. VI (VII), 12 טבעת שנתונה בל׳ וכ׳ a ring which was stuck into a brick of soft clay. Ab. Zar. 46ᵃ שזקף ל׳, v. זָקַף; a. fr.—Pl. לְבֵנִים, לְבֵי׳, Ex. R. s. 5. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XLVIII בין לובן הל׳ between the layers of bricks. B. Bath. I, 1; a. fr.—Trnsf. l’benah, the larger portion of a line filled out with writing; [Rashi: the blank], v. אָרִיחַ. e.g. Exodus 24:10
לִבְנָה
- , v. עַרְקת
לְבָנָה
- (b. h.)
- 1. fem. of לָבָן q. v.
- 2. moon. Ber. 59ᵇ. Erub. 56ᵃ והוא דאתיליד ל׳ או בל׳ וכ׳ provided the new moon sets in either at the moon-hour (the second hour of the night of the first day of the week and every eighth hour suceeding) or under the planet Tsedek (Jupiter). Pesik. R. s. 15, a. fr. מונים לל׳, v. מָנָה II. Ib. מולד הל׳, v. מוֹלָד. Gen. R. s. 33, end ימות הל׳, v. יוֹם; a. fr.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3842 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/לְּבָנָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 24:23 | 1 |
| הַ/לְּבָנָה֙ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 30:26 | 1 |
| כַ/לְּבָנָ֗ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Song of Solomon 6:10 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3842, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- לבן lâbân H3836 white
- לבנה libneh H3839 poplar
- לבנה libnâh H3840 tile
- לבנה lᵉbênâh H3843 brick
- מלבן malbên H4404 brick mold
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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