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 Ge 24:1ff Jacob, one of the sons of this marriage, fled
to the house of Laban, whose daughters Leah and Rachel
Ge 29:1-13 he eventually married.
See JACOB 24945
2. A city in the Arabian desert in the route of the Israelites
De 1:1 probably identical with Libnah Nu 33:20
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