לָבָן (la.van) means “Laban” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: law-bawn' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
לָבָן · la.van · Laban
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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לָבָן · la.van · Laban
§ Laban = "white" a wilderness encampment of the Israelites
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the same as H3836 (לָבָן); Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
KJV glosses: Laban.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| laban | 26 |
| and laban | 3 |
| of laban | 3 |
| then laban | 3 |
| but laban | 2 |
| so laban | 2 |
| when laban | 2 |
| and he | 1 |
| him | 1 |
| laban also | 1 |
| labans | 1 |
| now laban | 1 |
| now while laban | 1 |
| of labans | 1 |
| sheep in labans | 1 |
| that labans | 1 |
| then he | 1 |
| with labans | 1 |
| you | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| and laban | 20 |
| of laban | 6 |
| to laban | 6 |
| laban | 4 |
| unto laban | 3 |
| of labans | 2 |
| then laban | 2 |
| with laban | 2 |
| all that laban | 1 |
| and it came to pass when laban | 1 |
| them and laban | 1 |
| them not unto labans | 1 |
| thou to laban | 1 |
| upon them and laban | 1 |
| were labans | 1 |
| which laban | 1 |
| whom laban | 1 |
| ye laban | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 47 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
Read word by wordLaban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
Read word by wordand 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.
Read word by wordSo now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
Read word by word“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.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by word“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
Read word by wordAs 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.
Read word by wordWhen 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.
Read word by wordThen Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
Read word by wordLaban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
Read word by wordNow Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
Read word by wordLaban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
Read word by wordFinally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
Read word by wordSo Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
Read word by wordAnd Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
Read word by wordWhen 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?”
Read word by wordLaban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
Read word by wordLaban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
Read word by wordNow after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
Read word by wordBut 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.”
Read word by word“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
Read word by wordThen he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
Read word by wordJacob 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.
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordNow 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.”
Read word by wordAnd Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
Read word by word‘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.
Read word by wordNow while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Read word by wordMoreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
Read word by wordOn the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
Read word by wordBut 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.”
Read word by wordNow Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.
Read word by wordThen Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
Read word by word“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordNow 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.
Read word by wordThen Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
Read word by wordBut 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?
Read word by wordLaban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
Read word by wordThen Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
Read word by wordLaban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
Read word by wordEarly the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.1
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.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 32.5
These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.
Read word by wordThese are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.
Read word by wordThese 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.
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