Paddan
Paddan, also known as Paddan-aram or Aram, was the homeland of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, located in Mesopotamia.
PlaceOld Testament4 books16 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Genesis 25:20; referred to as Paddan (פַּדָּן), Paddan/-aram (פַּדָּן אֲרָם), Aram (אֲרָם), or Aramean (אֲרַמִּי).
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Alternative names
- פַּדָּןPaddan
- פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָםPaddan-aram
- אֲרָםArammeans “highness, magnificence, one that deceives; curse”
- אֲרַמִּיAramean
Mentions
- Genesis 25:20אֲרַמִּי · Aramean; פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aram…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 28:2פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aram“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 28:5אֲרַמִּי · Aramean; פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramSo 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 28:6פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramNow 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 28:7פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aram…and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 31:18פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aram…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 31:20אֲרַמִּי · ArameanMoreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:24אֲרַמִּי · ArameanBut that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
- Genesis 33:18פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramAfter 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 35:9פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramAfter Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:26פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramAnd 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 46:15פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramThese 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 48:7פַּדָּן · Paddan; פַּדָּן+H0758L«H0758=אֲרָם · Paddan-aramNow 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).
- Numbers 23:7אֲרָם · AramAnd Balaam lifted up an oracle, saying: “Balak brought me from Aram, the king of Moab from the mountains of the east. ‘Come,’ he said, ‘put a curse on Jacob for me; come and denounce Israel!’
- Deuteronomy 26:5אֲרַמִּי · Aramean…and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
- Hosea 12:12אֲרָם · AramJacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.