H3844. Lebanon

לְבָנוֺן‎ (Deuteronomy 3:25 הַלְּבָנֹן‎ van d. H.)₇₁

proper name, of a mountain Lebanon (Phoenician לבנן‎; Assyrian Labnanu, etc., Schr^{COT on 1 Kings 5:13}, Dl^{Par. 103 ff.}; Egyptian Ra-m­n-n WMM^{Asien u.Europa,197ff.}; Arabic compare further Rob^{BR ii, 435ff.}493GASm^Geogr.45ff. Buhl^{Geogr.110 and references}; name probably from whiteness of its cliffs Rob^{BR ii, 493}); — wooded mountain-range on northern border of Israel [usually with article ׳הַלּ‎ (51 t.); without articleלְבָנוֺן‎, in poetry and late Hosea 14:8; Nahum 1:4; 2 Kings 19:23 = Isaiah 37:24; Ezekiel 31:15-16, Isaiah 14:8; 29:17; 33:9; 40:16; Jeremiah 18:14; Habakkuk 2:17; Zechariah 10:10; 11:1; Psalm 29:6; Song of Solomon 4:8 (twice in verse); 4:11, 15; with ה‎ locative לְבָב֫וֺנָה‎ 1 Kings 5:28a]; perhaps first mentioned in defining a locality, as הַלְּבָנוֺן הַר‎, Judges 3:3 (E according to GFM; this combination only here), but also in early prophets, then in D, and later; — in defining a locality Joshua 9:1; הַלּ ׳בִּקְעַת‎ 11:17; 12:7 (side of Baal Gad); as a marked feature, in describing extent of land Deuteronomy 1:7; 3:25; 11:24; Joshua 1:4; 13:5 (כָּלהַֿל‎) 13:6 (all D), 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6; Jeremiah 22:26; Zechariah 10:10; ׳אשׁהַל׳ר‎ Jeremiah 22:6 (figurative of royal house of Judah), as a height Song of Solomon 4:8 (twice in verse); הַל ׳מִגְדַּל‎ Cant 7:5 i.e. a tower built on Lebanon; ל ׳שֶׁלֶג‎ Jeremiah 18:14 snow of L.; L. as source of streams Song of Solomon 4:15; ל ׳יֵין‎ Hosea 14:8; most often, however, as bearing forests, especially of cedars, הַלּ ׳אַרְזֵי‎ Judges 9:15 (in allegory; perhaps J, according to GFM), Isaiah 2:13; 14:8; Psalm 29:5; 104:16, compare 1 Kings 5:13; 1 Kings 5:20; 1 Kings 5:23; 1 Kings 5:28 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 2:7 (twice in verse); 2:15, 2 Kings 14:9 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 25:18 (twice in verse) (in allegory), Jeremiah 22:23; Ezekiel 17:3; 27:5; 31:3, 15, 16; Zechariah 11:1; Ezra 3:7; Psalm 92:13; Song of Solomon 3:9; 5:15 (simile of majestic figure); ל ׳מֶּרַח‎ Nahum 1:4; הַלּ ׳כְּבוֺד‎ Isaiah 35:2; 60:13; ל ׳וְשָׁב לְכַרְמֶל‎ 29:17 ׅ‎ "" ל ׳יַרְכְּתֵי (יַעַר‎ with the same reference 37:24 = 2 Kings 19:23; ׳הַלּ‎ = trees of Lebanon Hosea 14:6; Isaiah 10:34; 40:16; Psalm 29:6; 72:16; ׳ל‎ Isaiah 33:9 figurative, as mourning; ל ׳חֲמַס‎ Habakkuk 2:17 i.e. violence done to Lebanon, probably by cutting down its trees; הַלּ יַעַר ׳בֵּית‎ a royal mansion of Solomon, 1 Kings 7:2; and 10:17, 21 2 Chronicles 9:16, 20; ׳ל‎ as home of wild beast 2 Kings 14:9 2 Chronicles 25:18 (in allegory); לְבָנוֺן רֵיחַ‎, of the odour of cedar forests Song of Solomon 4:11, compare Hosea 14:7 (in simile; We thinks ׳ל‎ here to be a specific plant).