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.
Traditional renderings: Padan, Padan-aram.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
11 total
- 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.
- 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.
- Genesis 28:5פַּדֶּ֣נָֽהSo 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 28:6פַּדֶּ֣נָֽהNow 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 28:7פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה…and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
- 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.
- Genesis 33:18מִפַּדַּ֣ןAfter 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 35:9מִפַּדַּ֣ן · fromAfter Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:26בְּפַדַּ֥ן · inAnd 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.
- Genesis 46:15בְּפַדַּ֣ן · inThese 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.
- Genesis 48:7מִפַּדָּ֗ן · from PaddanNow 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).