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Laban Scripture - Genesis 31:26

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 in Wikipedia

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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Laban Scripture - Genesis 31:43

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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Laban Scripture - Genesis 31:33

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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Laban in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Laban in Naves Topical Bible

-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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Laban in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Laban in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("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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Laban in Hitchcock's Bible Names

white; shining; gentle; brittle...

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Laban in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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