Laban
לָבָןStrong’s H3837lavan (la-van)
Appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lavan is the Hebrew word usually translated “laban”. It appears in 47 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.24.29
- § Laban = "white"
How it's translated
- laban 45
- to laban 5
- and laban 3
- and to laban 1
- with laban 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 46
- Deuteronomy 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:50Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
- Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
- Genesis 27:43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;
- Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
- Genesis 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Genesis 29:5And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.
Hebrew dictionary
לָבָן lavan · Laban
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.24.29; son of: Bethuel (H1328A); brother of: Rebekah (H7259); father of: Rachel (H7354) and Leah (H3812) § Laban = "white" son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father of Leah and Rachel
לָבָן lavan · Laban
§ Laban = "white" a wilderness encampment of the Israelites
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.