פָּארָןPâʼrân
proper name [of a location]: Paran, usually ׳ מִדְבַּר פ home of Ishmael (Genesis 21:21; Numbers 12:16; Numbers 10:12; Numbers 13:2; Numbers 13:26)
Pronunciation: paw-rawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6290
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 21:21 and he settled in the wilderness of Paran. His mother arranged for him to marry a woman from the land of Egypt.
- Numbers 10:12 So the Israelites set out from the wilderness of Sinai and traveled on from place to place until the cloud stopped in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 12:16 Then they left Hazeroth and camped in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 13:3 So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He sent out twelve men, all tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp in the wilderness of Paran.
- Numbers 13:26 to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land.
- Deuteronomy 1:1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness east of the Jordan River. They were camped in the Jordan Valley near Suph, between Paran on one side and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab on the other.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).