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Genesis 31:19
“And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
לָבָןLâbân · law-bawn'
H3837 · Hebrew
H3837 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
- Derivation
- the same as H3836 (לָבָן);
- KJV renderings
- Laban.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- לָבָ֣ן — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 55 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 24:29Genesis 24:29Genesis 24:50Genesis 25:20Genesis 27:43
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read לָבָן here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.