Paddan

פַּדָּן · pad.dan · H6307אֲרָם · a.ram · H0758L1 other spelling16 mentions in 4 books, most in Genesis (13)

Where it is

36.86° N, 39.03° E · Located through Haran · ESV spelling: Paddan-aram

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Mentioned most in

Genesis · 13 Numbers · 1 Deuteronomy · 1 Hosea · 1

Counted from 16 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

About this place

Paddan, also referred to as Paddan-aram or Aram, was a region in Mesopotamia that played a significant role in the lives of the biblical patriarchs. It was the homeland of Abraham's family, and the place where Isaac and Israel (or 'Jacob') found their wives (Gen. 25:20; 28:2, 5-7). The name "Paddan-aram" means "the plain of Aram" or "the field of Aram," referring to the area's geographical characteristics and its association with the Arameans.

Rebekah, Isaac's wife, was from Paddan-aram (Gen. 25:20). Later, Jacob fled to Paddan-aram to escape his brother Esau's anger and to find a wife from among his relatives (Gen. 28:2, 5-7). During his time there, Jacob married Leah and Rachel and fathered eleven of his twelve sons (Gen. 35:23-26). Jacob eventually left Paddan-aram to return to Canaan with his family and possessions (Gen. 31:18; 33:18).

The Arameans, who inhabited Paddan-aram, are mentioned as the ancestors of the Israelites in the context of God's deliverance and blessing (Deut. 26:5). The prophet Hosea also refers to Jacob's flight to Paddan-aram and his service for a wife (Hos. 12:12).

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Every mention

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

Genesis13 mentions

Genesis 25:20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.Genesis 28:5Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.Genesis 28:6Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, “You shall not take a…Genesis 28:7and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.Genesis 31:18and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of…Genesis 31:20Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.Genesis 31:24God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”Genesis 33:18Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.Genesis 35:9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.Genesis 35:26The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.Genesis 46:15These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.Genesis 48:7As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to…

Numbers1 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.

Deuteronomy1 mention

Deuteronomy 26:5You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and…

Hosea1 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

pad'-an (Ge 48:7; the King James Version Padan, padan).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)

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