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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 named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Then Laban and Bethuel replied, "This is the LORD's doing. Our wishes are of no concern.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - Now then, my son, do what I say. Run away immediately to my brother Laban in Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Leave immediately for Paddan Aram! Go to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and find yourself a wife there, among the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - So he said to them, "Do you know Laban, the grandson of Nahor?" "We know him," they said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - When Laban heard this news about Jacob, his sister's son, he rushed out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban how he was related to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Then Laban said to him, "You are indeed my own flesh and blood." So Jacob stayed with him for a month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Then Laban said to Jacob, "Should you work for me for nothing because you are my relative? Tell me what your wages should be."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:16

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:19 - Laban replied, "I'd rather give her to you than to another man. Stay with me."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Finally Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban invited all the people of that place and prepared a feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - (Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - In the morning Jacob discovered it was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What in the world have you done to me! Didn't I work for you in exchange for Rachel? Why have you tricked me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - "It is not our custom here," Laban replied, "to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - (Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me on my way so that I can go home to my own country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, "If I have found favor in your sight, please stay here, for I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me on account of you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - "Agreed!" said Laban, "It will be as you say."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he separated them from Jacob by a three-day journey, while Jacob was taking care of the rest of Laban's flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob removed these lambs, but he made the rest of the flock face the streaked and completely dark-colored animals in Laban's flock. So he made separate flocks for himself and did not mix them with Laban's flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - Jacob heard that Laban's sons were complaining, "Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father's expense!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - When Jacob saw the look on Laban's face, he could tell his attitude toward him had changed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - Then he said, 'Observe that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, or spotted, for I have observed all that Laban has done to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 - Three days later Laban discovered Jacob had left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, "Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - "What have you done?" Laban demanded of Jacob. "You've deceived me and carried away my daughters as if they were captives of war!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - "I left secretly because I was afraid!" Jacob replied to Laban. "I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban entered Jacob's tent, and Leah's tent, and the tent of the two female servants, but he did not find the idols. Then he left Leah's tent and entered Rachel's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Jacob became angry and argued with Laban. "What did I do wrong?" he demanded of Laban. "What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Laban replied to Jacob, "These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today." That is why it was called Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:51

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - "Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you," Laban said to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - (32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He commanded them, "This is what you must say to my lord Esau: 'This is what your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban until now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, sixteen in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These were the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter. She bore these to Jacob, seven in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - This is what Moses said to the assembly of Israel in the Transjordanian wastelands, the arid country opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab
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