H6307 פַּדָּן (Paddân) pad-dawn'

Hebrew

Noun

Quick Definition

Paddan

Biblical Persons & Places

Paddan Paddan-aram

A location first mentioned at Gen.25.20; referred to as Paddan (פַּדָּן), or Paddan/-aram (KJV= Padan-aram) (פַּדָּן אֲרָם), or Aram (אֲרָם), or Aramean (אֲרַמִּי).

Strong's Definition

Paddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of Syria

Derivation: from an unused root meaning to extend; a plateau; or פַּדַּן אֲרָם; from the same and H758 (אֲרָם); the table-land of Aram;

KJV Usage: Padan, Padan-aram.

TWOT Reference: 1735

Outline of Biblical Usage

Padan or Padan-aram = "field"

1) a plain or tableland in northern Mesopotamia in Aram, a region of Syria

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פַּדָּן (pad.dan) — Paddan.

§ Padan or Padan-aram = "field" a plain or tableland in northern Mesopotamia in Aram, a region of Syria

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

פַּדָּן (H6307)

noun c

Names of Locations

Paddan = short form of Paddan-Aram

GEN 48:7

Reinier de Blois

פַּדַּן אֲרָם (H6307 · H0758)

noun c · פַּדָּן · אֲרָם

Names of Locations

Paddan-Aram, Mesopotamia = land, also known as Aram Naharaim; ◄ located in upper Mesopotamia, around the great bend of the Euphrates River in northern Syria; ► ancestral home of Abraham’s family (ABD)

GEN 25:20 · GEN 28:2 · GEN 28:5 · GEN 28:6 · GEN 28:7 · GEN 31:18 · GEN 33:18 · GEN 35:9 · GEN 35:26 · GEN 46:15

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פַּדָּן 11 n.pr.loc. (?garden, field) base

Bible Occurrences (11)

25:20 28:2 28:5 28:6 28:7 31:18 33:18 35:9 35:26 46:15 48:7

Genesis 25:20

and Isaac was forty years old... when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 28:2

Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob... to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, [who was] the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 28:6

Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him,... Do not marry... a Canaanite woman,

Genesis 28:7

and that Jacob had obeyed... his father... and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.

Genesis 31:18

and he drove all his livestock {before him},...... along with all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to his father Isaac in the land in Canaan.

Genesis 33:18

After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped... just outside the city.

Genesis 35:9

After [Jacob] had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to [him] again and blessed him.