Paddan Aram

Paddan Aram or Padan-aram Aramaic: פדן ארם was an early Aramean kingdom in Mesopotamia. Paddan Aram in Aramaic means the field of Aram. The name may correspond to the Hebrewsedeh Aram,” or “field of Aram.” (Rashi to Gen. 25:20; e.g., Hos. 12:13.)

In the Hebrew Bible

Paddan Aram designates the area of Harran in upper Mesopotamia. "Paddan Aram" and "Haran" may be dialectical variations regarding the same locality as paddanū and harranū are synonyms for "road" or "caravan route" in Akkadian.

Padan-aram or Padan appears in 11 verses in the Hebrew Bible, all in Genesis. Adherents of the documentary hypothesis often attribute most of these verses to the priestly source and the remainder to a later redactor.

The city of Harran, where Abraham and his father Terah settled after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, while en route to Canaan, according to the Genesis 11:31, was located in Paddan Aram, that part of Aram Naharaim that lay along the Euphrates. Abraham's brother Nahor settled in the area. Abraham’s nephew Bethuel, son of Nahor and Milcah, and father of Laban and Rebecca, lived in Padan-aram. Abraham sent his steward, back there to find a wife among his kinfolk for his son, Isaac. The steward found Rebecca.

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Jacob’s Thanksgiving

Cleburne Times-Review 18 Nov 2023
I’m packing for a weekend in Memphis, where I have a sister and some cousins ... This week, Jews are reading about Jacob lodging on the road to Paddan-aram and seeing angels going up and down a ladder (Genesis 28.10-12) ... ....

Sunday School Lesson

The Daily Post-Athenian 24 Sep 2022
Jacob presumably visited Isaac in Hebron on various occasions following his return from Paddan-aram ... Benjamin was not born in Paddan-aram, but near Bethlehem (Genesis 35.16-19).
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