לְבָנוֺן ([Deut 3:25] הַלְּבָנֹן van d. H.)71 proper name, of a mountain Lebanon (Phoenician לבנן; Assyrian Labnanu, etc., SchrCOT on [1Kgs 5:13], DlPar. 103 ff.; Egyptian Ra-mn-n WMMAsien u.Europa,197ff.; Arabic compare further RobBR ii, 435ff. 493 GASmGeogr.45ff. BuhlGeogr.110 and references; name probably from whiteness of its cliffs RobBR ii, 493); — wooded mountain-range on northern border of Israel [usually with article ׳הַלּ (51 t.); without articleלְבָנוֺן, in poetry and late [Hos 14:8]; [Nah 1:4]; [2Kgs 19:23] = [Isa 37:24]; [Ezek 31:15]; [Ezek 31:16]; [Isa 14:8]; [Isa 29:17]; [Isa 33:9]; [Isa 40:16]; [Jer 18:14]; [Hab 2:17]; [Zech 10:10]; [Zech 11:1]; [Ps 29:6]; [Song 4:8] (twice in verse); [Song 4:11]; [Song 4:15] with ה locative לְבָב֫וֺנָה [1Kgs 5:28]a]; perhaps first mentioned in defining a locality, as הַר הַלְּבָנוֺן, [Judg 3:3] (E according to GFM; this combination only here), but also in early prophets, then in D, and later; — in defining a locality [Josh 9:1] ׳בִּקְעַת הַלּ [Josh 11:17]; [Josh 12:7] (side of Baal Gad); as a marked feature, in describing extent of land [Deut 1:7]; [Deut 3:25]; [Deut 11:24]; [Josh 1:4]; [Josh 13:5] (כָּלהַֿל) v[Josh 13:6] (all D), [1Kgs 9:19] = [2Chr 8:6]; [Jer 22:26]; [Zech 10:10] ׳אשׁהַל׳ר [Jer 22:6] (figurative of royal house of Judah), as a height [Song 4:8] (twice in verse); ׳מִגְדַּל הַל [Song 7:5] i.e. a tower built on Lebanon; ׳שֶׁלֶג ל [Jer 18:14] snow of L.; L. as source of streams [Song 4:15] ׳יֵין ל [Hos 14:8] most often, however, as bearing forests, especially of cedars, ׳אַרְזֵי הַלּ [Judg 9:15] (in allegory; perhaps J, according to GFM), [Isa 2:13]; [Isa 14:8]; [Ps 29:5]; [Ps 104:16], compare [1Kgs 5:13]; [1Kgs 5:20]; [1Kgs 5:23]; [1Kgs 5:28] (twice in verse); [2Chr 2:7] (twice in verse); [2Chr 2:15], [2Kgs 14:9] (twice in verse) = [2Chr 25:18] (twice in verse) (in allegory), [Jer 22:23]; [Ezek 17:3]; [Ezek 27:5]; [Ezek 31:3]; [Ezek 31:15]; [Ezek 31:16]; [Zech 11:1]; [Ezra 3:7]; [Ps 92:13]; [Song 3:9]; [Song 5:15] (simile of majestic figure); ׳פֶּרַח ל [Nah 1:4] ׳כְּבוֺד הַלּ [Isa 35:2]; [Isa 60:13] לְכַרְמֶל ׳וְשָׁב ל [Isa 29:17] ׅ || (יַעַר ׳יַרְכְּתֵי ל with the same reference [Isa 37:24] = [2Kgs 19:23] ׳הַלּ = trees of Lebanon [Hos 14:6]; [Isa 10:34]; [Isa 40:16]; [Ps 29:6]; [Ps 72:16] ׳ל [Isa 33:9] figurative, as mourning; ׳חֲמַס ל [Hab 2:17] i.e. violence done to Lebanon, probably by cutting down its trees; ׳בֵּית יַעַר הַלּ a royal mansion of Solomon, [1Kgs 7:2] and [1Kgs 10:17]; [1Kgs 10:21] = [2Chr 9:16]; [2Chr 9:20] ׳ל as home of wild beast [2Kgs 14:9] = [2Chr 25:18] (in allegory); רֵיחַ לְבָנוֺן, of the odour of cedar forests [Song 4:11], compare [Hos 14:7] (in simile; We thinks ׳ל here to be a specific plant).
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