Word

לָבָן

Lâbân · H3837 · Hebrew · proper noun · 55 occurrences

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Person

Labanfirst named in Genesis 24:2946 verses

Place

Labanfirst named in Deuteronomy 1:11 verse

Meanings

Laban

Man; son of Bethuel; brother of Rebekah; father of Leah and Rachel

Examples
Genesis 24:29 Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.
Genesis 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The matter has come from the LORD; so we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Genesis 25:20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Laban

Location, possibly to be identified with Libnah in Sinai peninsula, between Rimmon-Perez and Rissah; place where the Israelites encamped on their way from Egypt to Canaan, not far from the place where Moses repeated the law

Examples
Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

10 occurrences in 3 groups

אָחbrother 6
אֲרַמִּיAramean 3
בֵּןson 2

What it doesIt is the subject

27 occurrences in 15 groups

אָמַרto say 9
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 4
Other words · 13 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָדַעto know 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בַּתdaughter 1
שֵׁםname 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

15 occurrences in 5 groups

אֵלto, toward 12
לto/for 11
עִםwith 2
בin/on/with 2
בֵּיןbetween, among 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

11 occurrences in 6 groups

צֹאןflock, small cattle, sheep and goats 5
בַּתdaughter 2
בֵּןson 1
אָחוֹתsister 1
לֵבheart, mind 1
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Color002001001014: This entry carries no independent color sense of its own; every tagged occurrence names the person Laban, as in “Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring” (Genesis 24:29). The “Color” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme לָבָן (lâbân, H3836), the adjective “white,” rather than independently attested here.
Names of People003001007: Laban is the personal name of Jacob's uncle and father-in-law, the brother of Rebekah (Genesis 24:29, 29:5-30), so this entry is primarily a personal name.
Names of Locations003001010: The same word also designates a place, Laban, listed among the wilderness stations in Deuteronomy 1:1, so it additionally functions as a place designation.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3837. Laban II. לָבָן54 proper name, masculine son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and…

H3837. Laban
II. לָבָן54 proper name, masculine son of Bethuel, brother of Rebekah, and father-in-law of Jacob (ᵐ5 Λαβαν), Gen 24:29 (twice in verse); Gen 24:50; Gen 27:43; Gen 28:2, Gen 28:5 Gen 28:17t. J (Gen 29, 30, 31, 32); Gen 29:15-16, Gen 29:19, Gen 29:21, Gen 29:22, Gen 29:26 Gen 29:18t. E (Gen 31, 32, ׳ל הָאֲרַמִּי Gen 31:24); Gen 25:20 (׳ל הָאֲרַמִּי) Gen 28:5 (id.), also Gen 28:2; Gen 29:24, Gen 29:29; Gen 46:18, Gen 46:25 (all P).
III. לָבָן proper name, of a location, connected with desert-journey of Israelites Deu 1:1, ᵐ5 Λοβαν; possibly = לִבְנָה 2, q. v.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0