Quick Definition
Mesopotamia
Biblical Persons & Places
Strong's Definition
Aram of (the) two rivers (Euphrates and Tigris) or Mesopotamia
Derivation: from H758 (אֲרָם) and the dual of H5104 (נָהָר);
KJV Usage: Aham-naharaim, Mesopotamia.
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם (a.ram na.ha.ra.yim) — Mesopotamia.
§ Aram-naharaim = "Aram of the two rivers" Mesopotamia
אֲרַם נַהֲרַיִם (a.ram na.ha.ra.yim) — Aram-naharaim.
§ Aram-naharaim = "Aram of the two rivers" Mesopotamia
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
name · אֲרָם · נָהָר
Names of Locations
Aram Naharaim, Mesopotamia = region, also known as Paddan-Aram; ◄ located in upper Mesopotamia, around the great bend of the Euphrates River in northern Syria; ► ancestral home of Abraham’s family, homeland of Balaam, the son of Beor, and the country of Cushan-Rishathaim, the first of the kings who oppressed Israel in the book of Judges (ABD)
GEN 24:10 · DEU 23:5 · JDG 3:8 · JDG 3:10 · 1CH 19:6 · PSA 60:2
1 JDG 3:8 NJB reads אֱדֹום "Edom" 2 JDG 3:10 MT has only אֲרָם here | NJB reads אֱדֹום "Edom"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
אֲרָם n.pr.m. Aram 5th son of Shem
grandson of Nahor
a descendant of Asher
—Elsewhere only of Aramæan people & land (= 1 supr.) people, sg. coll. = the Aramæans, a leading branch of the Shemitic stock inhabiting Mesopotamia & northern Syria, in many tribes & settlements
less often clearly of land; also of particular divisions of territory א׳ נַהֲרַיִם ‘Mesopotamia,’ i.e. prob. land between Euphrates & Chaboras; cf. פַּדַּן א׳ Paddan-Aram
often indeterminate
base