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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, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:50

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram[fn] 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: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - Go at once to Paddan Aram,[fn] to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among 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 on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?” “Yes, we know him,” they answered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - Then Laban said to him, “You are my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:15 - Laban said to him, “Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? 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 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’s better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here 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. My time is completed, and I want to make love to her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:24 - And Laban gave his servant Zilpah to his daughter as her attendant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn’t I? Why have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - Laban gave his servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her attendant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 - After Rachel gave birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can go back to my own homeland.

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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 eyes, please stay. 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 - “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob continued to tend the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - Jacob set apart the young of the flock by themselves, but made the rest face the streaked and dark-colored animals that belonged to Laban. Thus he made separate flocks for himself and did not put them with Laban’s animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but if the animals were weak, he would not place them there. So the weak animals went to Laban and the strong ones to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:1 - Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was running away.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:25

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You’ve deceived me, and you’ve carried off my daughters like captives in war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Jacob answered Laban, “I was afraid, because I thought you would 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 went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he came out of Leah’s tent, he 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 gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:36 - Jacob was angry and took Laban to task. “What is my crime?” he asked Laban. “How have I wronged you that you hunt me down?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:43 - Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” That is why it was called Galeed.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - Early the next morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters and blessed them. Then he left and returned home.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He instructed them: “This is what you are to say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says, I have been staying with Laban and have remained there till now.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These were the children born to Jacob by Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:25 - These were the sons born to Jacob by Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—that is, in the Arabah—opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
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