לָבָןLâbân
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
Pronunciation: law-bawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3837
Meanings
לָבָן: proper name, masculine: son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father-in-law of Jacob (Genesis 24:29; Genesis 24:50; Genesis 27:43; Genesis 28:2; Genesis 28:5)
לָבָן: proper name [of a location]: connected with desert-journey of Israelites, possibly = לִבְנָה 2 (Deuteronomy 1:1)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 55 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.
- Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The Lord has obviously brought you here, so there is nothing we can say.
- Genesis 25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 27:43 So listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran.
- Genesis 28:2 Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.
- Genesis 28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
See every passage
- Genesis 24:29, 24:50, 25:20, 27:43, 28:2, 28:5, 29:5, 29:10, 29:13, 29:14, 29:15, 29:16, 29:19, 29:21, 29:22, 29:24, 29:25, 29:26, 29:29, 30:25, 30:27, 30:34, 30:36, 30:40, 30:42, 31:1, 31:2, 31:12, 31:19, 31:20, 31:22, 31:24, 31:25, 31:26, 31:31, 31:33, 31:34, 31:36, 31:43, 31:47, 31:48, 31:51, 31:55, 32:4, 46:18, 46:25
- Deuteronomy 1:1
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).