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'''Deseret Alphabet:''' | '''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' ๐ข๐๐๐๐ค | ||
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| Lehite PN | 1. | Captain of fifty in JERUSALEM (1 Nephi 3:31; 2 Nephi 4:1), and custodian of Brass Plates (1 Nephi 3:3) and a descendant of JOSEPH who was sold into EGYPT (1 Nephi 5:16). |
| 2. | Brass Plates of (1 Nephi 3:3, 12 โ 3 Nephi 10:17) | |
| 3. | Sword of (1 Nephi 4:9; 2 Nephi 5:14; Jacob 1:10; Words of Mormon 1:13; Mosiah 1:16). |
Etymology
This PN appears in the KJV Genesis 24:29, 50,[1] and as a GN in Deuteronomy 1:1.[2] The PN also appears in the Ugaritic onomasticon.[3] It is possible that the name derives from the Hebrew lฤbฤn โwhite, pale.โ[4] Because the Hebrew feminine form lฤbฤnรข means โfull moon,โ the biblical PN could also be a theophoric element[5] analogous to the Babylonian names containing the theophoric name Sรฎn, meaning the moon god. This would be especially meaningful since biblical Laban lived in Haran (Genesis 27:43; 29:4), which (like Sumerian Ur) was a center of worship of the Moon-god Sรฎn.[6]
See LEBANON.
Variants
Deseret Alphabet: ๐ข๐๐๐๐ค
Notes
- โ Father-in-law of JACOB, son of Bethuel.
- โ = EGYPTIAN Rwbn, Rbะnะ = "town of Laban" in Palestine, taken by Sargon II of ASSYRIA. ( Wiseman, DOTT, 62[h].)
- โ Cyrus H. Gordon, Ugaritic Textbook, 19.1351.
- โ So M. Noth, Israelitischen Personennamen, p. 225.
- โ See the entry for the PN Laban in HALOT, II ืืื.
- โ J-C. Margueron, โUr,โ in Freedman, ed., ABD, VI:766; Y. Kobayashi, โHaran,โ ABD, III:58-59.
