Laban

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Laban
       n : Hungarian choreographer who developed Labanotation
           (1879-1958) [syn: {Rudolph 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 Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Laban, white; shining; gentle; brittle