A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.24.29; son of: Bethuel (H1328A); brother of: Rebekah (H7259); father of: Rachel (H7354) and Leah (H3812) § Laban = "white" son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father of Leah and Rachel
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H3837 — לָבָן
la.van · Laban · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 24:29 · לָבָ֑ן · לָבָ֧ןRebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.Genesis 24:50 · לָבָ֤ןThen Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.Genesis 25:20 · לָבָ֥ןIsaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.Genesis 27:43 · לָבָ֥ןNow therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.Genesis 28:2 · לָבָ֖ןArise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Genesis 28:5 · לָבָ֤ןIsaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.Genesis 29:5 · לָבָ֣ןHe said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”Genesis 29:10 · לָבָן֙ · לָבָ֖ן · לָבָ֖ןIt happened, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.Genesis 29:13 · לָבָ֜ן · לְלָבָ֔ןIt happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.Genesis 29:14 · לָבָ֔ןLaban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.Genesis 29:15 · לָבָן֙Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”Genesis 29:16 · וּלְלָבָ֖ןLaban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.Genesis 29:19 · לָבָ֗ןLaban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”Genesis 29:21 · לָבָן֙Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”Genesis 29:22 · לָבָ֛ןLaban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.Genesis 29:24 · לָבָן֙Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.Genesis 29:25 · לָבָ֗ןIt happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Didn’t I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?”Genesis 29:26 · לָבָ֔ןLaban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.Genesis 29:29 · לָבָן֙Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.Genesis 30:25 · לָבָ֔ןIt happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.Genesis 30:27 · לָבָ֔ןLaban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”Genesis 30:34 · לָבָ֖ןLaban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”Genesis 30:36 · לָבָ֖ןHe set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.Genesis 30:40 · לָבָ֑ן · לָבָֽן׃Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and didn’t put them into Laban’s flock.Genesis 30:42 · לְלָבָ֔ןbut when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.Genesis 31:1 · לָבָן֙He heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.”Genesis 31:2 · לָבָ֑ןJacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.Genesis 31:12 · לָבָ֖ןHe said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.Genesis 31:19 · וְלָבָ֣ןNow Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.Genesis 31:20 · לָבָ֖ןJacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.Genesis 31:22 · לְלָבָ֖ןLaban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.Genesis 31:24 · לָבָ֥ןGod came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Take heed to yourself that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”Genesis 31:25 · לָבָ֖ן · וְלָבָ֛ןLaban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.Genesis 31:26 · לָבָן֙Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?Genesis 31:31 · לְלָבָ֑ןJacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’Genesis 31:33 · לָבָ֜ןLaban went into Jacob’s tent, into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn’t find them. He went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.Genesis 31:34 · לָבָ֛ןNow Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn’t find them.Genesis 31:36 · בְּלָבָ֑ן · לְלָבָ֔ןJacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?Genesis 31:43 · לָבָ֜ןLaban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?Genesis 31:47 · לָבָ֔ןLaban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.Genesis 31:48 · לָבָ֔ןLaban said, “This heap is witness between me and you this day.” Therefore it was named GaleedGenesis 31:51 · לָבָ֖ןLaban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.Genesis 31:55 · לָבָ֜ן · לָבָ֖ןEarly in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.Genesis 32:4 · לָבָ֣ןHe commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: ‘This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.Genesis 46:18 · לָבָ֖ןThese are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.Genesis 46:25 · לָבָ֖ןThese are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.Deuteronomy 1:1 · וְלָבָ֥ןThese are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.