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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

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.

The other 37 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: Laban, and Laban.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
LabanStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 24:29Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
LabanStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein 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.

לָבָןlabanwhiteUses29

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

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.

    Genesis 24:29

    • 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.

    Genesis 24:50

    • 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.

    Genesis 25:20

    • לָבָ֥ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

    Genesis 27:43

    • 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.

    Genesis 28:2

    • 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.

    Genesis 28:5

    • לָבָ֤ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

    Genesis 29:5

    • 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.

    Genesis 29:10

    • 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.

    Genesis 29:13

    • 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,

    Genesis 29:14

    • 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.”

    Genesis 29:15

    • לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.

    Genesis 29:16

    • 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.”

    Genesis 29:19

    • 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.”

    Genesis 29:21

    • לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

    Genesis 29:22

    • לָבָ֛ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

    Genesis 29:24

    • 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?”

    Genesis 29:25

    • לָבָ֗ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

    Genesis 29:26

    • לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

    Genesis 29:29

    • 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.

    Genesis 30:25

    • 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.”

    Genesis 30:27

    • לָבָ֔ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

    Genesis 30:34

    • 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.

    Genesis 30:36

    • 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.

    Genesis 30:40

    • 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.

    Genesis 30:42

    • 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.”

    Genesis 31:1

    • לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

    Genesis 31:2

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:12

    • לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

    Genesis 31:19

    • וְלָבָ֣ןvelavanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Laban
  • Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

    Genesis 31:20

    • לָבָ֖ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

    Genesis 31:22

    • 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.”

    Genesis 31:24

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:25

    • 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!

    Genesis 31:26

    • לָבָן֙lavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • “I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

    Genesis 31:31

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:33

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:34

    • 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?

    Genesis 31:36

    • 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?

    Genesis 31:43

    • לָבָ֜ןlavanproper noun (a name)tagged: Laban
  • Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

    Genesis 31:47

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:48

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:51

    • 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.

    Genesis 31:55

    • 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.

    Genesis 32:4

    • 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.

    Genesis 46:18

    • 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.

    Genesis 46:25

    • 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.

    Deuteronomy 1:1

    • 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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