Biblica Analytica
H3838 Hebrew

לְבָנָא

le.va.na

Lebanah

Lexicon Entry

Definition
Lebanah
Transliteration
le.va.na
Strong's Number
H3838
Occurrences
2
Semantic Domain
Proper Name: Person

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

What Original Readers Understood

Supported

# Lebanah (H3838): A Rare Biblical Term Based on the lexical data provided, **Lebanah** appears only twice in the biblical text, making it an extremely rare Hebrew word. The lemma itself is presented without an English gloss definition in this entry, which limits direct interpretation of its meaning from the lexicon data alone. Its minimal occurrence suggests it was either a specialized term with limited applicability or a word that became obsolete even within the biblical period. The scarcity of attestation—just two occurrences across the entire Hebrew Bible—indicates that Lebanah likely refers to something specific rather than a common concept. Words appearing so infrequently in ancient texts often denote proper nouns, technical terms, or objects of limited relevance to the broader biblical narrative. Without additional contextual or definitional information provided in the lexicon entry, the precise significance of this term remains constrained by the data available. For biblical scholars and translators, the rarity of Lebanah underscores the challenges of interpreting hapax legomena (words appearing only once) and near-hapax legomena in Scripture. Each occurrence would require careful examination of surrounding context to determine meaning, since frequency alone provides insufficient evidence for establishing reliable definitions.

Source data & methodology
Strong's
H3838
Lemma
לְבָנָא
Transliteration
le.va.na
Definition
Lebanah
Occurrences
2
Model
claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
Prompt version
1

AI synthesis uses only the lexicon data above as context — never training knowledge.

Occurrences in Scripture

2 total occurrences across the text