Hebrew word · H3838

לְבָנָא

levanah

Lebanah

A personal name. As an ordinary word, levanah is a poetic term for the moon ('the white one'), from the root l-b-n, 'white'.

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.45; also called Lebana at Neh.7.48;

§ Lebanah or Lebana = "moon-white"

head of a family of exiles who returned with Zerubbabel

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Ezra 2:45

Range of meaning

A personal name. As an ordinary word, levanah is a poetic term for the moon ('the white one'), from the root l-b-n, 'white'.

Against the English

English versions simply transliterate it. That is correct for a name.

Used elsewhere in the period

The name appears only in this list (Ezra 2:45; Neh 7:48). The common noun means 'moon' in Isaiah 24:23, Isaiah 30:26 and Song 6:10.

Where it appears

Ezra · 1

  1. Ezra 2:45 לְבָנָ֥ה Lebanah

    the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Akkub,

    Here: The ancestor's name for one temple-servant family. The word looks like the poetic Hebrew word for the moon, 'the white one' (Isaiah 24:23; Song 6:10), though the name may only mean 'white'.

Nehemiah · 1

  1. Nehemiah 7:48 לְבָנָ֥ה Lebanah

    the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Shalmai,

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