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Aram

“highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse” Hitchcock's 18695 mentions in 4 books, most in 2 Samuel (2)

Where it is

TadmorTadmorTiphsahTiphsahEuphratesEuphratesRezephRezephHazar-enanHazar-enanZedadZedadAramabout 542 km across

34.85° N, 39.12° E

Coordinates and map: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0 · drawn without map tiles

Mentioned most in

2 Samuel · 2Numbers · 11 Chronicles · 1Hosea · 1
Counted from 5 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

Every mention

5 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)

Numbers 1 mention

Numbers 23:7He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

2 Samuel 2 mentions

2 Samuel 8:6Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.2 Samuel 15:8For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

1 Chronicles 1 mention

1 Chronicles 2:23Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

Hosea 1 mention

Hosea 12:12Jacob fled into the country of Aram. Israel served to get a wife. For a wife he tended flocks and herds.

What the dictionary says

The son of Shem (Gen. 10:22); according to Gen. 22:21, a grandson of Nahor.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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