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# לָבָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3837

**Laban** — used 54 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Laban [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3837/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לָבָן²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3837/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father-in-law of Jacob (𝔊 Λαβαν), Gn 24:29(×2), 50; 27:43; 28:2, 5 + 17 times J (Gn 29, 30, 31, 32); 29:15, 16, 19, 21, 22, 26 + 18 times E (Gn 31, 32, ל׳ הָאֲרַמִּי 31:24); 25:20 (ל׳ הָאֲרַמִּי) 28:5 (id.), also 28:2; 29:24, 29; 46:18, 25 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Laban (42); of Laban (11); \[was\] Laban (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.34/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר לָבָ֖ן הֵ֑ן ל֖וּ יְהִ֥י כִדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Laban there! if let.it.be according to your.word

*JPS 1917:* And Laban said: 'Behold, would it might be according to thy word.'

[Genesis 29:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.29.22/#tree)

וַיֶּאֱסֹ֥ף לָבָ֛ן אֶת־כָּל־אַנְשֵׁ֥י הַמָּק֖וֹם וַיַּ֥עַשׂ מִשְׁתֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.gathered Laban (et) all the.people of the.place and he.prepared a.feast

*JPS 1917:* And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3837.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3837/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).