{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3837",
  "lemma": "לָבָן",
  "transliteration": "Lâbân",
  "definition": "Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert",
  "kjv": "Laban.",
  "occurrences": 55,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "לָבָן n.pr.loc. connected with desert-journey of Israelites Dt 1:1",
    "לָבָן n.pr.m",
    "לָבָן 54 n.pr.m. son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father-in-law of Jacob"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:29",
      "text": "Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=29"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:50",
      "text": "Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from the LORD. We can’t speak to you bad or good.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=50"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 25:20",
      "text": "Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:43",
      "text": "Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban, my brother, in Haran.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=43"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 28:2",
      "text": "Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 28:5",
      "text": "Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/28?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:5",
      "text": "He said to them, “Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?” They said, “We know him.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:10",
      "text": "When Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban, his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother’s brother, Jacob…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:13",
      "text": "When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 29:14",
      "text": "Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=14"
    }
  ],
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