Person of Interest

    Laban

    meaning: white; shining; gentle; brittle

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Dictionary Summary: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](/gen#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


Father

    Bethuel

    meaning: filiation of God

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Siblings

    Rebekah

    meaning: fat; fattened; a quarrel appeased

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Children

    Leah

    meaning: weary; tired

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    Rachel

    meaning: sheep

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Cross References
BookCross-References
Gen
    24.29 24.50 25.20 27.43 28.2 28.5 29.5 29.10 29.13 29.14 29.15 29.16 29.19 29.21 29.22 29.24 29.25 29.26 29.29 30.25 30.27 30.34 30.36 30.40 30.42 31.1 31.2 31.12 31.19 31.20 31.22 31.24 31.25 31.26 31.31 31.33 31.34 31.36 31.43 31.47 31.48 31.51 31.55 32.4 46.18 46.25 

Figure1:  A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages   (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.) 

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      Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0. 

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      M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0. 

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      Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.