lavan · Laban

What it means

lavan (לָבָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Laban”.

Brother of Rebekah and father of Leah and Rachel, Jacob's father-in-law, who lived in Haran. Also a place in the wilderness.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×54
• Deuteronomy×1

• Genesis 24:29

  Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.

• Genesis 24:50

  Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The matter has come from YHWH; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

• Genesis 27:43

  So now, my son, listen to my voice: get up, flee to Laban my brother, to Haran,

• Genesis 28:2

  Get up, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take for yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 29:5

  He said to them, “Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”

• Genesis 29:10

  When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother.

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 29:14

  Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.

• Genesis 29:15

  Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you serve me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

• Genesis 29:16

  Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

• Genesis 29:19

  Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I give her to another man; stay with me.”

• Genesis 29:21

  Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, so that I may go in to her.”

• Genesis 29:22

  Laban gathered all the men of the place and made a feast.

• Genesis 29:24

  Laban gave her Zilpah his slave woman, to Leah his daughter as a slave woman.

• Genesis 29:25

  In the morning, look, she was Leah! And he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why have you deceived me?”

• Genesis 29:26

  Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

• Genesis 29:29

  Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his slave woman, to her as a slave woman.

• Genesis 30:25

  When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, so that I may go to my own place and to my land.

• Genesis 30:27

  Laban said to him, “If, please, I have found favor in your eyes— I have learned by divination that YHWH has blessed me because of you.”

• Genesis 30:34

  Laban said, “Very well; let it be according to your word.”

• Genesis 30:36

  And he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing the rest of the flocks of Laban.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock was feeble, he would not put them there; so the feeble were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Genesis 31:1

  He heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken all that was our father’s, and from what was our father’s he has made all this wealth.”

• Genesis 31:2

  And Jacob saw the face of Laban, and look, it was not with him as before.

• Genesis 31:12

  He said, ‘Lift up, please, your eyes and see: all the male goats that are mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.

• Genesis 31:19

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the teraphim that belonged to her father.

• Genesis 31:20

  And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

• Genesis 31:22

  It was told to Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled.

• Genesis 31:24

  But Elohim came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Be careful not to speak with Jacob either good or bad.”

• Genesis 31:25

  Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain, and Laban encamped with his brothers in the hill country of Gilead.

• Genesis 31:26

  Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of the sword.

• Genesis 31:31

  Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said to myself, ‘You might take by force your daughters from me.’

• Genesis 31:33

  So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two slave women, but he did not find them. He came out of Leah’s tent and went into Rachel’s tent.

• Genesis 31:34

  Now Rachel had taken the teraphim and put them in the saddle of the camel and sat on them. Laban felt through the whole tent but did not find them.

• Genesis 31:36

  Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?

• Genesis 31:43

  Laban answered and said to Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters, the sons are my sons, the flock is my flock, and all that you see is mine. But to my daughters what can I do to these today, or to their children whom they have borne?

• Genesis 31:47

  Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

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