Paddân — H6307

Definition

locative proper noun

Paddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of Syria

1. Padan or Padan-aram = "field"
2. a plain or tableland in northern Mesopotamia in Aram, a region of Syria

Usually translated as

Padan, Padan-aram

Origin

from an unused root meaning to extend; a plateau; or Paddan ʼĂrâm; from the same and H758; the table-land of Aram

• Derived from ʼĂrâm (H758)

Occurrences

Paddân occurs 11 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (11)

• Genesis 25:20 — And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram (מִפַּדַּ֖ן), the sister to Laban the Syrian.
• Genesis 28:2 — Arise, go to Padan-aram (פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה), to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.
• Genesis 28:5 — And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram (פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה) unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
• Genesis 28:6 — When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram (פַּדֶּ֣נָֽה), to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
• Genesis 28:7 — And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram (פַּדֶּ֥נָֽה);
• Genesis 31:18 — And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram (בְּפַדַּ֣ן), for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
• Genesis 33:18 — And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram (מִפַּדַּ֣ן); and pitched his tent before the city.
• Genesis 35:9 — And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram (מִפַּדַּ֣ן), and blessed him.
• Genesis 35:26 — And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram (בְּפַדַּ֥ן).
• Genesis 46:15 — These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padan-aram (בְּפַדַּ֣ן), with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
• Genesis 48:7 — And as for me, when I came from Padan (מִפַּדָּ֗ן), Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.