Laban: meaning of the name

Laban in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Laban in the Bible

• Laban, son of Bethuel

  46 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 24:29

Places named Laban

• Laban

Laban in Scripture

“Laban” appears in 47 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 24:29

  And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

• Genesis 24:50

  Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

• Genesis 25:20

  And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

• Genesis 27:43

  Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

• Genesis 28:2

  Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

• Genesis 28:5

  And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

• Genesis 29:5

  And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

• Genesis 29:10

  And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.