LABAN

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‡LABAN

Lehite PN		Inhabitant of Jerusalem, descended from Joseph (1 Nephi 3:3; Mosiah 1:16)

This is also a biblical name (Genesis 24–32 passim). For the etymology see the standard biblical commentaries.

Confer also the Near Eastern GN Lebanon: biblical Lebanon, possibly Egyptian rbn(n), and Ebla labanan (Pettinato, Archives).