לָבָן

Genesis 24:29 לָבָ֑ן לָבָ֧ן [was] Laban, Laban

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

Genesis 24:50 לָבָ֤ן Laban

Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.

Genesis 25:20 לָבָ֥ן Laban

and 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.

Genesis 27:43 לָבָ֥ן Laban

So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.

Genesis 28:2 לָבָ֖ן Laban

“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.

Genesis 28:5 לָבָ֤ן Laban

So 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.

Genesis 29:5 לָבָ֣ן Laban

“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

Genesis 29:10 לָבָן֙ לָבָ֖ן לָבָ֖ן Laban

As 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.

Here: Rebekah's brother (Gen 24:29). His name means 'white', which the story plays on later when Jacob uses white-peeled rods to breed the flocks (30:35–37). Here he is named only through his relation to Jacob's mother.

Genesis 29:13 לָבָ֜ן לְלָבָ֔ן Laban, to Laban

When 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.

Genesis 29:14 לָבָ֔ן Laban

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Genesis 29:15 לָבָן֙ Laban

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”

Genesis 29:16 וּלְלָבָ֖ן and [belonged] to Laban

Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.

Genesis 29:19 לָבָ֗ן Laban

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”

Genesis 29:21 לָבָן֙ Laban

Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”

Genesis 29:22 לָבָ֛ן Laban

So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.

Genesis 29:24 לָבָן֙ Laban

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

Genesis 29:25 לָבָ֗ן Laban

When 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?”

Genesis 29:26 לָבָ֔ן Laban

Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.

Genesis 29:29 לָבָן֙ Laban

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

Genesis 30:25 לָבָ֔ן Laban

Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.

Genesis 30:27 לָבָ֔ן Laban

But 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.”

Here: Jacob's uncle and father-in-law, an Aramean of Haran. The name means 'white'. Hebrew storytellers played on it: in the next scene Jacob 'out-whites' Laban with peeled white rods (v. 37, livneh, 'poplar').

Genesis 30:34 לָבָ֖ן Laban

“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”

Genesis 30:36 לָבָ֖ן Laban

Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.

Genesis 30:40 לָבָ֑ן לָבָֽן׃ Laban

Jacob 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.

Genesis 30:42 לְלָבָ֔ן [belonged] to Laban

But 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.

Genesis 31:1 לָבָן֙ Laban

Now 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.”

Here: Jacob's uncle and father-in-law. The name means 'white', which plays on the white-streaked flocks of 30:35-37.

Genesis 31:2 לָבָ֑ן Laban

And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.

Genesis 31:12 לָבָ֖ן Laban

‘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.

Genesis 31:19 וְלָבָ֣ן and Laban

Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Here: The name comes before the verb, which in Hebrew narrative marks a background clause: "Now Laban...". The name means "white", and in the next verse it chimes with lev, "heart" (lev Lavan, "Laban's heart").

Genesis 31:20 לָבָ֖ן Laban

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

Genesis 31:22 לְלָבָ֖ן to Laban

On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.

Genesis 31:24 לָבָ֥ן Laban

But 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.”

Here: Jacob's uncle and father-in-law, Rebekah's brother. The name means "white." He is chasing Jacob, who has run off with Laban's daughters, grandchildren and flocks.

Genesis 31:25 לָבָ֖ן וְלָבָ֛ן Laban, and Laban

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

Genesis 31:26 לָבָן֙ Laban

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!

Genesis 31:31 לְלָבָ֑ן to Laban

“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.

Genesis 31:33 לָבָ֜ן Laban

So 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.

Genesis 31:34 לָבָ֛ן Laban

Now 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.

Genesis 31:36 בְּלָבָ֑ן לְלָבָ֔ן with Laban, to Laban

Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?

Genesis 31:43 לָבָ֜ן Laban

But 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?

Genesis 31:47 לָבָ֔ן Laban

Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

Genesis 31:48 לָבָ֔ן Laban

Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.

Genesis 31:51 לָבָ֖ן Laban

Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

Genesis 31:55 לָבָ֜ן לָבָ֖ן Laban

Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.

Here: Rebekah's brother and Jacob's uncle and father-in-law, the Aramean from Haran. His name means 'white'; this is his last appearance in the Bible.

Genesis 32:4 לָבָ֣ן Laban

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.

Genesis 46:18 לָבָ֖ן Laban

These are the sons of Jacob born to Zilpah—whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah—sixteen in all.

Genesis 46:25 לָבָ֖ן Laban

These are the sons of Jacob born to Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel—seven in all.

Deuteronomy 1:1 וְלָבָ֥ן and Laban

These 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.