פַּדָּןPaddân
proper name [of a location]: perhaps Paddânâ, near Haran (Genesis 48:7; Hosea 12:13; Genesis 25:20; Genesis 28:2)
Pronunciation: pad-dawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6307
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 25:20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Genesis 28:2 Instead, go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of your uncle Laban’s daughters.
- Genesis 28:5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram to stay with his uncle Laban, his mother’s brother, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
- Genesis 28:6 Esau knew that his father, Isaac, had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to find a wife, and that he had warned Jacob, “You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”
- Genesis 28:7 He also knew that Jacob had obeyed his parents and gone to Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 31:18 and he drove all his livestock in front of him. He packed all the belongings he had acquired in Paddan-aram and set out for the land of Canaan, where his father, Isaac, lived.
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).