Laban
And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, [These] daughters
[are] my daughters, and [these] children [are] my children,
and [these] cattle [are] my cattle, and all that thou seest
[is] mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters,
or unto their children which they have born?...
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And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and
into the two maidservants' tents; but he found [them] not.
Then went he out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's
tent....
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And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast
stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters, as
captives [taken] with the sword?...
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Laban (Hebrew: לָבָן, Modern Lavan Tiberian Lāḇān ; "White") is
the son of Bethuel, brother of Rebecca and the father of Leah
and Rachel as described in the Book of Genesis. As such he is
brother-in-law to Isaac and both father-in-law and uncle to
Jacob. Laban and his family were described as dwelling in
Paddan-aram, in Mesopotamia.
Laban firs...
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la'-ban: The person named Laban, labhan; (Laban, possibly
connected with the root meaning "to be white," from which in
Hebrew the adjective meaning "white" has just this form) is
first introduced to the reader of Genesis in the story of
the wooing of Rebekah (Genesis 24). He belonged to that
branch of the family of Terah that was derived from ...
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-Son of Bethuel
Ge 28:5
-Brother of Rebekah
Ge 22:23; 24:15,29
-Receives the servant of Abraham
Ge 24:29-33
-Receives Jacob, and gives him his daughters in marriage
Ge 29:12-30
-Jacob becomes his servant
Ge 29:15-20,27; 30:27-43
-Outwitted by Jacob
Ge 30:37-43; 31:1-21
-Pursues Jacob, overtakes him at Mount Gilead, and covenants
with h...
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(white).
1. Son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah and father of
Leah and Rachel. (B.C. about 1860-1740.) The elder branch of
the family remained at Haran, Mesopotamia, when Abraham
removed to the land of Canaan, and it is there that we first
meet with Laban, as taking the leading part in the betrothal
of his sister Rebekah to her cousin Isaac. G...
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white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor,
Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia.
His sister
Rebekah was Isaac's wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the
sons of
this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose
daughters Leah
and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married. (See JACOB
(2.) A city in the Arabian desert in the...
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("whiteness). Possibly alluding to the white poplars growing
near. Deuteronomy 1:1. Perhaps Libnah (Numbers 33:20); near
the Elanitic gulf or the Arabah desert. The name may be
preserved in El Beyaneh, W. of the Arabah, N. of Ezion Geber....
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