לָבָןLâbân/law-bawn'/
HebrewH383755 occurrences (KJV)
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
KJV renders it: Laban.
Where it appears(showing the first 47 of 55)
- Gen 24:29Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
- Gen 24:50Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.
- Gen 25:20Isaac 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.
- Gen 27:43Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.
- Gen 28:2Arise, 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.
- Gen 28:5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah’s brother, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Gen 29:5He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”
- Gen 29:10When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
- Gen 29:13When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.
- Gen 29:14Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” He lived with him for a month.
- Gen 29:15Laban said to Jacob, “Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?”
- Gen 29:16Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
- Gen 29:19Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me.”
- Gen 29:21Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her.”
- Gen 29:22Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
- Gen 29:24Laban gave Zilpah his servant to his daughter Leah for a servant.
- Gen 29:25In the morning, 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?”
- Gen 29:26Laban said, “It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.
- Gen 29:29Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his servant, to be her servant.
- Gen 30:25When Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
- Gen 30:27Laban 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.”
- Gen 30:34Laban said, “Behold, let it be according to your word.”
- Gen 30:36He set three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
- Gen 30:40Jacob 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.
- Gen 30:42but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Gen 31:1He 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.”
- Gen 31:2Jacob saw the expression on Laban’s face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
- Gen 31:12He 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.
- Gen 31:19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
- Gen 31:20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.
- Gen 31:22Laban was told on the third day that Jacob had fled.
- Gen 31:24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
- Gen 31:25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.
- Gen 31:26Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Gen 31:31Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’
- Gen 31:33Laban 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.
- Gen 31:34Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
- Gen 31:36Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
- Gen 31:43Laban 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 today to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Gen 31:47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
- Gen 31:48Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed
- Gen 31:51Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
- Gen 31:55Early in the morning, Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them. Laban departed and returned to his place.
- Gen 32:4He 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.
- Gen 46:18These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob, even sixteen souls.
- Gen 46:25These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.
- Deut 1:1These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah over against Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.