This is a fairly simple example of use of the EDBH to understand the message in Scripture. I hope the methods help you and help to bring some peace to our world.
h3828. לְבוֹנָה leḇônâ; or לְבֹנָה lbonah; from h3835. לָבַן lâḇan
This is one of the simplest examples in really using the EDBH, to begin with.
- Eight translations, giving some good variety for witnesses
- None of the translations have more than one verse listed (no also’s)
- No variants (Gradational or Derivational)
- Only one phonetic cognate
- Phonetic cognate does have two “also’s” for explanation purposes
Phonetic cognate does have one Gradational Variant
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p.128 לבן whiten; purify
Translations:
Purifying; cleansing
Deuteronomy 3:25 I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon (h3844. לְבָנוֹן leḇânôn).’
Burning clay into fire bricks
Exodus 5:7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make (h3835. לָבַן lâḇan) brick (h3843. לְבֵנָהleḇênâ) as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves.
Bright white
Exodus 16:31 And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white (h3836. לָבָן lâḇân) coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
Fired brick
Exodus 24:9-10 – On the Mountain with God
9 Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, 10 and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved (h3840. לִבְנָה liḇnâ) work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.
Fire-oven
2 Samuel 12:31 And he brought out the people who were in it, and put them to work with saws and iron picks and iron axes, and made them cross over to the brick works (h4404. מַלְבֵּן malḇên). So he did to all the cities of the people of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
Frankincense
Leviticus 24:7 And you shall put pure frankincense (h3828. לְבוֹנָה leḇônâ) on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to יהוה.
Bright moon
Isaiah 24:23
23 Then the moon (h3842. לְבָנָה leḇânâ) will be disgraced
And the sun ashamed;
For יהוה of hosts will reign
On Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
And before His elders, gloriously.
Aspen tree
Genesis 30:37 Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar/aspen (h3839. לִבְנֶה liḇneh) and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white (h3836. לָבָן lâḇân) strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods.
((I would add for your awareness also, Laban, Jacob’s father-in-law; Libni eldest son of Gershon and grandson of Levi; Lebana, head of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel; and two places named Libnah:
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- a royal city of the Canaanites in the southwest captured by Joshua; allocated to Judah and made a Levitical city; site unknowna
- station between Sinai and Kadesh of Israel during their wilderness wanderings))
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Cognate meaning – expose/protect
Only one phonetic cognate in this instance, but one that has additional verses, “also’s,” which is where one can get much of the sense of the meaning.
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p.130 לון shelter from possible danger
Translations
Seeking shelter
Genesis 19:1-2
1 Now the two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them, and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground. 2 And he said, “Here now, my lords, please turn in to your servant’s house and {stay the night} (h3885. לוּן lûn; or לִין liyn) and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” And they said, “No, but we will {stay the night} (h3885. לוּן lûn; or לִין liyn) in the open square.”
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Psalms 25:12-13
12 Who is the man that fears יהוה?
Him shall He teach in the way He chooses.
13 He himself shall dwell (h3885. לוּן lûn; or לִין liyn) in prosperity,
And his descendants shall inherit יהוה.
Grumbling; demanding redress
Exodus 15:24 And the people complained (h3885. לוּן lûn; or לִין liyn) against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”
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Exodus 16:7 And in the morning you shall see the glory of יהוה; for He hears your complaints (h8519. תְּלוּנָה ṯelûnâ; or תְּלֻנָּה tlunnah) against יהוה. But what are we, that you complain (h3885. לוּןlûn; or לִין liyn) against us?”
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Numbers 16:11 Therefore you and all your company are gathered together against the LORD. And what is Aaron that you complain (h3885. לוּן lûn; or לִין liyn) against him?”
Inn
Genesis 43:21 but it happened, when we came to the inn (h4411. מָלוֹן mâlôn), that we opened our sacks, and there, each man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight; so we have brought it back in our hand.
I encourage you to read Genesis 13:5-16 as further explanation, and more is seen in LogAndSpeck.com, Post 43 All Those Nations, discussion of this passage and “the Canaanites and the Perizzites were dwelling in the land.”
Our journey toward “purification” is dealing with the trials of life, without grumbling. It is thus that we will come to our inheritance. When we complain about others, or about our leaders, we are complaining about God, the maker and ruler of all. Paul re-words this in Romans 13:1-5. It is our hearts that must change. May Frankincense and Myrrh purify us.
Myrrh h4753. מֹר môr
GV p.144 מרר arouse [bitterness]; p.143 מרה oppose; p.143 מרא expand [enlarge]; p.137 מור exchange; p.105 יםר exchange; (p.157 נמר spotting) CM ימר effect change
DV אמר – p.144 מרר arouse [bitterness]; p.143 מרה oppose; p.137 מור exchange > p.12 אמר organize speech to be heard and understood
CM (מרר no cognates); מרה spread; מרא spread; (מור no cognates); ימר effect change; אמר bring together
May we not complain, but rather may bitter times in life effect change in us and bring us together.
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Gradational Variant לנן
p.132 לנן dwell
Dwelling
Psalms 91:1 – Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God – NKJV
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide h3885. לוּן lûn; or לִין liyn under the shadow of the Almighty.
Tehilim 91:1
1 ישב בסתר עליון בצל שדי יתלוןן׃
לין GLOSS qal: stay the night; dwell; hithpolel: dwell
PARSING Hebrew, verb, hitpolel, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
CODE @vvi3ms – BHS with critical apparatus and Westminster morphology
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