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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 - Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Then Laban and Bethu'el answered, "The thing comes from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethu'el the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethu'el your mother's father; and take as wife from there 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 - Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethu'el the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:10 - Now when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob went up 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 - When Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, he ran to meet him, and embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him 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 kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall 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 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 to you than that I should give her to any other 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 that I may go in to her, for my time is completed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So 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 - (Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her maid.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - And in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the first-born.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban said to him, "If you will allow me to say so, I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - Laban said, "Good! Let it be as you have said."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - and he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he put his own droves apart, 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 for the feebler of the flock he did not lay them there; 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 that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see, all the goats that leap upon the flock are striped, spotted, and mottled; 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 - Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 - When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, "Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:25 - And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen encamped in the hill country 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 cheated me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:33 - So Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maidservants, but he did not find them. And he went out of 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 household gods and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Then Jacob became angry, and upbraided Laban; Jacob said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and 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 Je'gar-sahadu'tha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me today." Therefore he named it Galeed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - Then Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap and the pillar, which I have set between you and me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early in the morning Laban arose, and kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them; then he departed and returned home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - instructing them, "Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, 'I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - (these are 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 Box Gen 46:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Haze'roth, and Di'zahab.
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