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Lebanon — the meaning of the Hebrew name לְבָנוֹן

לְבָנוֹן

Lᵉbânôwn · pronounced leb-aw-nohn' · Strong's H3844 · a place

Lebanon means (the) white mountain (from its snow).

Built from

לְבַב lᵉbab (from, H3825) — (Aramaic) corresponding to H3824 open in the lexicon ›

Strong's definition

from H3825; (the) white mountain (from its snow); Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine.

First appearance

Deut 1:7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. (KJV)

Every verse that names Lebanon

64 occurrences in 64 verses — Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Psalms, Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zechariah

Deut 1:7Deut 3:25Deut 11:24Josh 1:4Josh 9:1Josh 11:17Josh 12:7Josh 13:5Josh 13:6Judg 3:3Judg 9:151Kgs 5:131Kgs 5:201Kgs 5:231Kgs 5:281Kgs 7:21Kgs 9:191Kgs 10:171Kgs 10:212Kgs 14:92Kgs 19:232Chr 2:72Chr 2:152Chr 8:62Chr 9:162Chr 9:202Chr 25:18Ezra 3:7Ps 29:5Ps 29:6Ps 72:16Ps 92:13Ps 104:16Song 3:9Song 4:8Song 4:11Song 4:15Song 5:15Song 7:5Isa 2:13Isa 10:34Isa 14:8Isa 29:17Isa 33:9Isa 35:2Isa 37:24Isa 40:16Isa 60:13Jer 18:14Jer 22:6Jer 22:20Jer 22:23Ezek 17:3Ezek 27:5Ezek 31:3Ezek 31:15Ezek 31:16Hos 14:6Hos 14:7Hos 14:8Nah 1:4Hab 2:17Zech 10:10Zech 11:1

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