Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Laban"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Laban
n : Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation
(1879-1958) [syn: {Laban}, {Rudolph Laban}]
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