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laban |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Laban white. (1.) The son of Bethuel, who was the son of Nahor, Abraham's brother. He lived at Haran in Mesopotamia. His sister Rebekah was Isaac's wife (Gen. 24). Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel (ch. 29) he eventually married. (See {JACOB}.) (2.) A city in the Arabian desert in the route of the Israelites (Deut. 1:1), probably identical with Libnah (Num. 33:20). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Laban, white; shining; gentle; brittle
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