Strong's Hebrew · H3837

H3837 Lâbân

לָבָן

law-bawn'

Laban

Looking for Greek G3837 pantachoû? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3837. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

Lâbân appears 55 times in Scripture, including Genesis 24:29 and Genesis 24:50. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert

In the King James Version

Laban.

Derivation

the same as H3836 (לָבָן);

Appears 55 times in Scripture

Genesis 24:50

“Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.”

Genesis 31:33

“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 28:5

“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 25:20

“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 27:43

“So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.”

Genesis 28:2

““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 29:10

“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 29:5

““Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.”

Genesis 24:29

“Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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