Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H3837
לָבָן
Labanlaw-bawn'
Laban; Laban
55 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Lâbân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3837is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 20spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3837
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
The King James renders it: Laban.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Laban is rendered "Laban; Laban". It stands 55 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Fifty-four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "Laban".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
- The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.
The first use
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Genesis 24:29לָבָ֑ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifty-four of the word's fifty-five uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: Laban, and Laban.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| LabanStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 24:29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring. |
| LabanStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Laban45
- to Laban5
- and Laban3
- and to Laban1
- with Laban1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| לָבָן | laban | white | Uses29 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 55, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
20 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לָבָ֖ן12
- לָבָן֙7
- לָבָ֔ן6
- לָבָ֜ן4
- לָבָ֑ן3
- לָבָ֥ן3
- לְלָבָ֔ן3
- לָבָ֤ן2
- לָבָ֣ן2
- לָבָ֗ן2
- לָבָ֛ן2
- בְּלָבָ֑ן1
and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)45HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)6HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
Genesis
fifty-four uses
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
- לָבָ֑ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- לָבָ֧ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
- לָבָ֤ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
- לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
“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.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֤ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
- לָבָ֣ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- לְלָבָ֔ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Laban
Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
- לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
- וּלְלָבָ֖ןulelavanconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Laban
Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
- לָבָ֗ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
- לָבָ֛ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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?”
- לָבָ֗ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.”
- לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֑ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- לָבָֽן׃lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לְלָבָ֔ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Laban
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.”
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
- לָבָ֑ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
‘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.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
- וְלָבָ֣ןvelavanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Laban
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
- לְלָבָ֖ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Laban
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.”
- לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- וְלָבָ֛ןvelavanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Laban
Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
- לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
- לְלָבָ֑ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Laban
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.
- לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֛ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
- בְּלָבָ֑ןbelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: with Laban
- לְלָבָ֔ןlelavanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Laban
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?
- לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
- לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
- לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
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.
- לָבָ֣ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
- לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
Deuteronomy
one use
These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
- וְלָבָ֥ןvelavanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Laban
The letters
Gematria 82· 732 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
