פַּדָּן

pad.danPaddan
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place11 occurrences1 book11 verses
This is the name of the place Paddan: The homeland of the patriarchs in Mesopotamia.

Definition

from an unused root meaning to extend; a plateau; or פַּדַּן אֲרָם; from the same and H758; the table-land of Aram; Paddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of Syria
Traditional renderings: Padan, Padan-aram.

Glossary entries

Paddan, Paddan-Aram Aram (Place)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

11 total
  1. Genesis 25:20מִפַּדַּ֖ן
    …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.
  2. Genesis 28:2פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה
    “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.
  3. Genesis 28:5פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה
    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.
  4. Genesis 28:6פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה
    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,”
  5. Genesis 28:7פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה
    …and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
  6. Genesis 31:18בְּפַדַּ֣ן
    …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.
  7. Genesis 33:18מִפַּדַּ֣ן
    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.
  8. Genesis 35:9מִפַּדַּ֣ן · from
    After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
  9. Genesis 35:26בְּפַדַּ֥ן · in
    And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
  10. Genesis 46:15בְּפַדַּ֣ן · in
    These are the sons of Leah born to Jacob in Paddan-aram, in addition to his daughter Dinah. The total number of sons and daughters was thirty-three.
  11. Genesis 48:7מִפַּדָּ֗ן · from Paddan
    Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).