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Laban may refer to:

• Laban (Bible), a character in the Book of Genesis.
• Laban (Book of Mormon), a character in The Book of Mormon.
• Laban (artist), a 1980s Eurodance duo.
• Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (Struggle of Democratic Filipinos), a political party in the Philippines.
• Lilla spöket Laban (The Little Ghost Godfrey), a Swedish children's book character.
• Rudolf Laban, a dancer and dance theorist who devised:
  • Laban Movement Analysis, a system for describing movement.
  • Laban (college), a college in southeast London named after Rudolf Laban.
• Labneh, a traditional Arabic drinking yogurt similar to buttermilk also known as laban.
• Lakas ng Bayan (People's Power), a former political party in the Philippines that was known by the acronym, LABAN (meaning "Fight")

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology

From Hebrew לָבָן.

Proper noun

Laban

1. (Biblical) The brother of Rebekah and uncle to Jacob and Esau.
2. A male given name of biblical origin.

Quotations

• 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, 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.

Translations

Anagrams

• Anagrams of aabln
• Alban
• banal
• nabla

From BibleWiki

Meaning: 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.
2. A city in the Arabian desert in the route of the Israelites (Deut 1:1), probably identical with Libnah (Num 33:20).

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From Familypedia

• Sex : Male

Pedigree

Son of Bethuel

Full Name

Laban

Biography

Siblings

• Rebekah

Spouse(s)

Offspring

• Leah
• Rachel

Sources

Book of Genesis