לָבָן

Laban (Person)· Laban (Place)

1. Genesis 24:29 (2×)לָבָ֑ן · Laban; לָבָ֧ן · and [he]
   Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.
2. Genesis 24:50לָבָ֤ן · Laban
   Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
3. Genesis 25:20לָבָ֥ן · of 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.
4. Genesis 27:43לָבָ֥ן · Laban
   So now, my son, obey my voice and flee at once to my brother Laban in Haran.
5. Genesis 28:2לָבָ֖ן · of 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.
6. Genesis 28:5לָבָ֤ן · 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.
7. Genesis 29:5לָבָ֣ן · Laban
   “Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
8. Genesis 29:10 (3×)לָבָן֙ · Laban; לָבָ֖ן · with Laban’s; לָבָ֖ן
   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.
9. Genesis 29:13 (2×)לָבָ֜ן · When Laban; לְלָבָ֔ן · him
   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.
10. Genesis 29:14לָבָ֔ן · Then Laban
    Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
11. Genesis 29:15לָבָן֙ · Laban
    Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
12. Genesis 29:16וּלְלָבָ֖ן · Now Laban
    Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel.
13. Genesis 29:19לָבָ֗ן · Laban
    Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
14. Genesis 29:21לָבָן֙ · Laban
    Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
15. Genesis 29:22לָבָ֛ן · So Laban
    So Laban invited all the men of that place and prepared a feast.
16. Genesis 29:24לָבָן֙ · And Laban
    And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.
17. Genesis 29:25לָבָ֗ן · 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?”
18. Genesis 29:26לָבָ֔ן · Laban
    Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
19. Genesis 29:29לָבָן֙ · Laban also
    Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.
20. Genesis 30:25לָבָ֔ן · 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.
21. Genesis 30:27לָבָ֔ן · But 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.”
22. Genesis 30:34לָבָ֖ן · Laban
    “Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
23. Genesis 30:36לָבָ֖ן · of Laban’s
    Then he put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flocks.
24. Genesis 30:40 (2×)לָבָ֑ן · sheep in Laban’s; לָבָֽן׃ · Laban’s
    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.
25. Genesis 30:42לְלָבָ֔ן · 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.
26. Genesis 31:1לָבָן֙ · that Laban’s
    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.”
27. Genesis 31:2לָבָ֑ן · of Laban
    And Jacob saw from the countenance of Laban that his attitude toward him had changed.
28. Genesis 31:12לָבָ֖ן · 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.
29. Genesis 31:19וְלָבָ֣ן · Now while Laban
    Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
30. Genesis 31:20לָבָ֖ן · Laban
    Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
31. Genesis 31:22לְלָבָ֖ן · Laban
    On the third day Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.
32. Genesis 31:24לָבָ֥ן · 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.”
33. Genesis 31:25 (2×)לָבָ֖ן · when Laban; וְלָבָ֛ן · 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.
34. Genesis 31:26לָבָן֙ · Then Laban
    Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
35. Genesis 31:31לְלָבָ֑ן · [you]
    “I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
36. Genesis 31:33לָבָ֜ן · So 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.
37. Genesis 31:34לָבָ֛ן · And 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.
38. Genesis 31:36 (2×)בְּלָבָ֑ן · Laban; לְלָבָ֔ן
    Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
39. Genesis 31:43לָבָ֜ן · But 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?
40. Genesis 31:47לָבָ֔ן · Laban
    Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
41. Genesis 31:48לָבָ֔ן · Then Laban
    Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
42. Genesis 31:51לָבָ֖ן · Laban
    Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
43. Genesis 31:55לָבָ֜ן · Laban
    Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.