(Paddan)-aram
אֲרָםStrong’s H6307aram (a-ram)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Aram is the Hebrew word usually translated “from paddan”, “paddan towards” and “paddan”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.”
Meaning
- Aram or Arameans = "exalted"
How it's translated
- from paddan 4
- paddan towards 4
- in paddan 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 11
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Padanaram, 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 28:5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
- Genesis 28:6When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, 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 28:7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
- Genesis 31:18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 33:18And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲרָם aram · (Paddan)-aram
Aram or Arameans = "exalted" Aram or Syrian nation Combined with pad.dan (פַּדָּן "Paddan" H6307)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.