לָבָן
Lâbân · law-bawn'
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H3836 (לָבָן);
Laban, a Mesopotamian; also a place in the Desert
- Laban, a Mesopotamian
- also, a place in the Desert
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Laban.
Letters
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
authority, the one who leads › the house, what is within › the seed, life continuing
Authority, the one who leads of the house, what is within of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of לָבָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
55 occurrences · 55 OT · 0 NT · 20 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and laban20 · 36%
- to laban6 · 11%
- of laban6 · 11%
- unto laban3 · 5%
- laban3 · 5%
- then laban2 · 4%
- of laban's2 · 4%
- with laban2 · 4%
- was laban1 · 2%
- thou to laban1 · 2%
- ye laban1 · 2%
- and it came to pass, when laban1 · 2%
- them not unto laban's1 · 2%
- were laban's1 · 2%
- all that laban1 · 2%
- upon them. and laban1 · 2%
- them: and laban1 · 2%
- whom laban1 · 2%
- which laban1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.