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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 by the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you either bad or good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:43

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “Now therefore, my son, obey my voice: arise, flee to my brother Laban in Haran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - “Arise, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of 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 away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” And they said, “We know him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - Then it came to pass, when Laban heard the report about Jacob his sister’s son, that he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. So he told Laban all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - And Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he 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, “Because you are my relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder 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 - And Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 - Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - So it came to pass in the morning, that behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served you? Why then have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - And Laban said, “It must not be done so in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - Now Jacob heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has acquired all this wealth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and indeed it was not favorable toward him as before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - “And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 - And Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - So Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountains, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mountains of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - And Laban said to Jacob: “What have you done, that you have stolen away unknown to me, and carried away my daughters like captives taken with the sword?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Perhaps you would take your daughters from me by force.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the two maids’ tents, but he did not find them. Then he went out of Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Then Jacob was angry and rebuked Laban, and Jacob answered and said to Laban: “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have so hotly pursued me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - And Laban answered and said to Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and this flock is my flock; all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their children whom they have borne?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:47

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - And Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore its name was called Galeed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “Here is this heap and here is this pillar, which I have placed between you and me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - And early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his sons and daughters and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - And he commanded them, saying, “Speak thus to my lord Esau, ‘Thus your servant Jacob says: “I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These were the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain[fn] opposite Suph,[fn] between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
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