Word Study · Strong's H3837 · Hebrew
לָבָן
Laban
law-bawn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Lâbân
“Laban, a Mesopotamian”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
Rendered in the KJV as
Laban.
- 55occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 20inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 55 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 20
- לָבָ֖ן12
- לָבָן֙7
- לָבָ֔ן6
- לָבָ֜ן4
- לָבָ֑ן3
- לָבָ֥ן3
- לְלָבָ֔ן3
- לָבָ֤ן2
- לָבָ֣ן2
- לָבָ֗ן2
- לָבָ֛ן2
- בְּלָבָ֑ן1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 7
- Laban44
- to Laban4
- and Laban3
- [belonged] to Laban1
- [was] Laban1
- and [belonged] to Laban1
- with Laban1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- proper noun (a name)45
- preposition + proper noun (a name)6
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpm · 45
- HR/Npm · 6
- HC/Npm · 2
- HC/Npl · 1
- HC/R/Npm · 1
All 55, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis54 occurrences
- Genesis 24:29לָבָ֑ןlavanproper noun (a name)Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.here: [was] Laban
- Genesis 24:29לָבָ֧ןlavanproper noun (a name)Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.here: Laban
- Genesis 24:50לָבָ֤ןlavanproper noun (a name)Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.here: Laban
- Genesis 25:20לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.here: Laban
- Genesis 27:43לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.here: Laban
- Genesis 28:2לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.here: Laban
- Genesis 28:5לָבָ֤ןlavanproper noun (a name)So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:5לָבָ֣ןlavanproper noun (a name)“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:10לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:10לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:10לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:13לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:13לְלָבָ֔ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.here: to Laban
- Genesis 29:14לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,here: Laban
- Genesis 29:15לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”here: Laban
- Genesis 29:16וּלְלָבָ֖ןulelavanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.here: and [belonged] to Laban
- Genesis 29:19לָבָ֗ןlavanproper noun (a name)Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”here: Laban
- Genesis 29:21לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”here: Laban
- Genesis 29:22לָבָ֛ןlavanproper noun (a name)So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:24לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:25לָבָ֗ןlavanproper noun (a name)When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”here: Laban
- Genesis 29:26לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.here: Laban
- Genesis 29:29לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.here: Laban
- Genesis 30:25לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.here: Laban
- Genesis 30:27לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”here: Laban
- Genesis 30:34לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”here: Laban
- Genesis 30:36לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.here: Laban
- Genesis 30:40לָבָ֑ןlavanproper noun (a name)Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.here: Laban
- Genesis 30:40לָבָֽן׃lavanproper noun (a name)Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.here: Laban
- Genesis 30:42לְלָבָ֔ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.here: [belonged] to Laban
- Genesis 31:1לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”here: Laban
- Genesis 31:2לָבָ֑ןlavanproper noun (a name)And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:12לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:19וְלָבָ֣ןvelavanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.here: and Laban
- Genesis 31:20לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:22לְלָבָ֖ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.here: to Laban
- Genesis 31:24לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”here: Laban
- Genesis 31:25לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:25וְלָבָ֛ןvelavanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.here: and Laban
- Genesis 31:26לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!here: Laban
- Genesis 31:31לְלָבָ֑ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.here: to Laban
- Genesis 31:33לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:34לָבָ֛ןlavanproper noun (a name)Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:36בְּלָבָ֑ןbelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?here: with Laban
- Genesis 31:36לְלָבָ֔ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?here: to Laban
- Genesis 31:43לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?here: Laban
- Genesis 31:47לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:48לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:51לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:55לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.here: Laban
- Genesis 31:55לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.here: Laban
- Genesis 32:4לָבָ֣ןlavanproper noun (a name)He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.here: Laban
- Genesis 46:18לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.here: Laban
- Genesis 46:25לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.here: Laban
Same headword in Strong's