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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 H3837; and Laban H3837 ran outside to the man at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 -

Then Laban H3837 and Bethuel answered and said, “The matter comes from Yahweh; so we cannot speak to you bad or good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:20 - and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the [fn]Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban H3837 the [fn]Aramean, to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:43 - “So now, my son, listen to my voice, and arise, [fn]flee to Haran, to my brother Laban H3837!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:2 - “Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban H3837 your mother’s brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:5 - Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban H3837, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:5 - Then he said to them, “Do you know Laban H3837 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 - Now it happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban H3837 his mother’s brother and the sheep of Laban H3837 his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and gave water to the flock of Laban H3837 his mother’s brother to drink.

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So it happened that when Laban H3837 heard the report of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, and he embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Then he recounted to Laban H3837 all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:14 - And Laban H3837 said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him one month.

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Then Laban H3837 said to Jacob, “Because you are my [fn]relative, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban H3837 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 - And Laban H3837 said, “It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:21 -

Then Jacob said to Laban H3837, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:22 - And Laban H3837 gathered 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 H3837 also gave his servant-woman Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a servant-woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:25 - Now it happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban H3837, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:26 - But Laban H3837 said, “It is not [fn]the practice in our place to give the younger before the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:29 - Laban H3837 also gave his servant-woman Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her servant-woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:25 -

Now it happened when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban H3837, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:27 - But Laban H3837 said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, stay with me; I have interpreted an omen that Yahweh has blessed me on your account.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:34 - And Laban H3837 said, “Behold, [fn]let it be according to your word.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:36 - And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob was pasturing the rest of Laban’s H3837 flocks.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:40

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:40 - And Jacob separated the lambs, and he [fn]made the flocks face toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban H3837; and he set his own herds apart and did not set them with Laban’s H3837 flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:42 - but when the flock was feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s H3837 and the [fn]stronger Jacob’s.

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Then [fn]Jacob heard the words of Laban’s H3837 sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father, and from what belonged to our father he has made all this [fn]wealth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:2 - And Jacob saw the face of Laban H3837, and behold, it was not friendly toward him as formerly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:12 - “He said, ‘Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are [fn]mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban H3837 has been doing to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban H3837 had gone to shear his flock. Then Rachel stole the [fn]household idols that were her father’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:20 - And Jacob [fn]deceived Laban H3837 the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:22 -

Then it was told to Laban H3837 on the third day that Jacob had fled;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - And God came to Laban H3837 the Aramean in a dream of the night and said to him, “[fn]Beware lest you speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

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So Laban H3837 caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban H3837 with his [fn]relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:26 - Then Laban H3837 said to Jacob, “What have you done [fn]by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:31 - Then Jacob answered and said to Laban H3837, “Because I was afraid, because I said, ‘Lest you take your daughters from me by force.’

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So Laban H3837 went into Jacob’s tent and into Leah’s tent and into the tent of the two maidservants, 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 BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the [fn]household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban H3837 felt through all the tent but did not find them.

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Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban H3837; and Jacob answered and said to Laban H3837, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

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Then Laban H3837 answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, and the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine. But what can I do this day to these daughters of mine or to their children whom they have borne?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:47 - And Laban H3837 called it [fn]Jegar-sahadutha, but Jacob called it [fn]Galeed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:48 - Then Laban H3837 said, “This heap is a witness between [fn]you and me this day.” Therefore it was named Galeed,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:51 - And Laban H3837 said to Jacob, “Behold this heap and behold the pillar which I have set between [fn]you and me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:55

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:55 - [fn]And Laban H3837 arose early in the morning and kissed his sons and his daughters and blessed them. Then Laban H3837 departed and returned to his place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He also commanded them saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord, to Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob, “I have sojourned with Laban H3837 and have been delayed until now;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:18 - These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban H3837 gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

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These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban H3837 gave to his daughter Rachel, and she bore these to Jacob; there were seven persons in all.

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These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite [fn]Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban H3837 and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

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