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Lexicon :: Strong's H3837 - lāḇān

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לָבָן
Transliteration
lāḇān
Pronunciation
law-bawn'
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as לָבָן (H3836)
Strong’s Definitions

לָבָן Lâbân, law-bawn'; the same as H3836; Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert:—Laban.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x

The KJV translates Strong's H3837 in the following manner: Laban (55x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 55x
The KJV translates Strong's H3837 in the following manner: Laban (55x).

  1. Laban = "white"

    proper masculine noun

    1. son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father of Leah and Rachel

      proper locative noun

    2. a wilderness encampment of the Israelites

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
לָבָן Lâbân, law-bawn'; the same as H3836; Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert:—Laban.
STRONGS H3837: Abbreviations
II. לָבָן 54 proper name, masculine son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father-in-law of Jacob (Greek Version of the LXX Λαβαν), Genesis 24:29 (twice in verse); Genesis 24:50; Genesis 27:43; Genesis 28:2, 5 + 17 times J (Gen 29, 30, 31, 32); Genesis 29:15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 26 + 18 times E (Gen 31, 32, הָאֲרַמִּי ל׳ Genesis 31:24); Genesis 25:20 (הָאֲרַמִּי ל׳) Genesis 28:5 (id.), also Genesis 28:2; Genesis 29:24, 29; Genesis 46:18, 25 (all P).

III. לָבָן proper name, of a location, connected with desert-journey of Israelites Deuteronomy 1:1, Greek Version of the LXX Λοβαν; possibly = H3841 לִבְנָה 2, which see.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:29; 24:50; 25:20; 27:43; 28:2; 28:2; 28:5; 28:5; 29; 29:15; 29:16; 29:19; 29:21; 29:22; 29:24; 29:26; 29:29; 29:30; 29:31; 29:32; 31; 31:24; 31:32; 46:18; 46:25

Deuteronomy

1:1

H3837

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3837 matches the Hebrew לָבָן (lāḇān),
which occurs 55 times in 47 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man at the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 -

Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The matter has come from the LORD; so we dare not speak bad or good [to you about it—we cannot interfere].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean (Syrian) of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “So now, my son, listen and do what I say; go, escape to my brother Laban in Haran!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - “[fn]Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take from there as a wife for yourself one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - So he said to them, “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor [Abraham’s brother]?” And they replied, “We know him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw [his cousin] Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and Laban’s sheep, he came up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered the flock of Laban, his uncle.

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When Laban heard of the arrival of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and embraced and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he told Laban all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Then Laban said to him, “You are my bone and my flesh.” And Jacob stayed with him a month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 -

Then Laban said to Jacob, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:19 - Laban said, “It is better that I give her [in marriage] to you than give her to another man. Stay and work with me.”

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Finally, Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time [of service] is completed, so that I may take her to me [as my wife].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban gathered together all the men of the place and prepared a [wedding] [fn]feast [with wine].

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - Laban also gave Zilpah his maid to his daughter Leah as a maid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - But in the morning [when Jacob awoke], it was Leah [who was with him]! And he said to Laban, “What is this that you have done to me? Did I not work for you [for seven years] for Rachel? Why have you deceived and betrayed me [like this]?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - But Laban only said, “It is not [fn]the tradition here to give the younger [daughter in marriage] before the older.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - Laban also gave Bilhah his maid to his daughter Rachel as a maid.

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Now when Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go back to my own place and to my own country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, stay with me; for I have learned [from the omens in divination and by experience] that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - And Laban said, “Good! Let it be done as you say.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - And he put [a distance of] three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob was then left in care of the rest of Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob separated the lambs, and [as he had done with the peeled branches] he made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the dark or black in the [new] flock of Laban; and he put his own herds apart by themselves and did not put them [where they could breed] with Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but when the flock was sickly, he did not put the branches there; so the sicker [animals] were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

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Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying: “Jacob has taken away everything that was our father’s, and from what belonged to our father he has acquired all this wealth and honor.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - Jacob noticed [a change in] the [fn]attitude of Laban, and saw that it was not friendly toward him as before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - “He said, ‘Look up and see, all the rams which are mating [with the flock] are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel [went inside the house and] stole her father’s [fn]household gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob [fn]deceived Laban the Aramean (Syrian) by not telling him that he intended to leave and he slipped away secretly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 -

On the third day [after his departure] Laban was told that Jacob had fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful that you do not speak to Jacob, either good or bad.”

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Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the hill, and Laban with his relatives camped on the same hill of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “What do you mean by deceiving me and leaving without my knowledge, and carrying off my daughters as if [they were] captives of the sword?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Jacob answered Laban, “[I left secretly] because I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

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So Laban went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and the tent of the two maids, but he did not find them. Then he came out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlebag and sat on them. Laban searched through all her tent, but did not find them.

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Then Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. And he said to Laban, “What is my fault? What is my sin that you pursued me like this?

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Laban answered Jacob, “These [fn]women [that you married] are my daughters, these children are my [fn]grandchildren, these flocks are [from] my flocks, and all that you see [here] is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters or to their children to whom they have given birth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha (stone monument of testimony in [fn]Aramaic), but Jacob called it [fn]Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, “This mound [of stones] is a witness [a reminder of the oath taken] today between you and me.” Therefore he [also] called the name Galeed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - Laban said to Jacob, “Look at this mound [of stones] and look at this pillar which I have set up between you and me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early in the morning Laban got up and kissed his [fn]grandchildren and his daughters [goodbye] and pronounced a blessing [asking God’s favor] on them. Then Laban left and returned home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He commanded them, saying, “This is what to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says this, “I have been living temporarily with Laban, and have stayed there until now;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, [the maid] whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter [when she married Jacob]; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons [two sons and fourteen grandchildren].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These are the sons of Bilhah, [the maid] whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter [when she married Jacob]. And she bore these to Jacob; [there were] seven persons in all [two sons and five grandchildren].

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These are the words which Moses spoke to all [fn]Israel [while they were still] beyond [that is, on the east side of] the Jordan [River] in the wilderness [across from Jerusalem], in the Arabah [the long, deep valley running north and south from the eastern arm of the Red Sea to beyond the Dead Sea] opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab (place of gold).

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