Padan-Aram
PADAN-ARAM
The plains of Aram or Syria, Gen 25:20 28:2 31:18, or simply PADAN, Gen 48:7, the plain, in distinction from the “mountains” of Aram Num 23:7 . See MESOPOTAMIA, and SYRIA.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Padan-Aram
(Heb. Paddan Aram’, , the field [or flat country] of Syria, i.e. Mesopotamiaonly in Genesis; Sept. , Gen 25:20; Gen 28:6-7; Gen 33:18; M. Gen 28:2; Gen 28:5; Gen 31:18; M. . Gen 35:9; Gen 35:26; Gen 46:15; Alex. M. Gen 25:20; Gen 28:5; Gen 28:7; Gen 31:18; M. . Gen 28:2; Gen 33:18, Vulg. Mesopotamia Gen 25:20; Gen 31:18; M. Syrice, Gen 28:2; Gen 28:5-6; Gen 33:18; Gen 35:9; Gen 35:26; Gen 46:15; Syria, Gen 26:15); once called Padan simply (Gen 48:7); the tableland of Aram,” a name by which the Hebrews designated the tract of country which they otherwise called ARAM-NAHARAIM, Aram of the two rivers, the Greek MESOPOTAMIA (Gen 24:10), and the field (A.V. country) of Aram (Hos 12:12). The term was perhaps more especially applied to that portion which bordered on the Euphrates, to distinguish it from the mountainous districts in the north and north-east of Mesopotamia. Rashi’s note on Gen 25:20 is curious: Because there were two Arams, Aram-naharaim and Aram Zobah, he (the writer) calls it Paddan-Aram; the expression yoke of oxen’ is in the Targums
, paddan torin; and some interpret Paddan-Aram as field of Aram,’ because in the language of the Ishmaelites they call a field paddan. In Syr. pidono is used for a plain or field; and both this and the Arabic word are probably from the Arab root fadda, to plough, which seems akin tofid in fidit, from findere. If this etymology be true, Paddan-Aram is the arable land of Syria: either an upland vale in the hills, or a fertile district immediately at their feet (Stanley, Sin. and Pal. p. 129, note). Paddan, the ploughed land, would thus correspond with the Lat. arvum, and is analogous to Eng. field, the felled land, from which the trees have been cleared. SEE ARAM.
Padan-Aram plays an important part in the early history of the Hebrews. The family of their founder had settled there, and were long looked upon as the aristocracy of the race, with whom alone the legitimate descendants of Abraham might intermarry, and. thus preserve the purity of their blood. Thither Abraham sent his faithful steward (Gen 24:10), after the news had reached him in his southern home at Beersheba that children had been born to his brother Nahor. From this family alone, the offspring of Nahor and Micah, Abraham’s brother and niece, could a wife be sought, for Isaac, the heir of promise (Gen 25:20), and Jacob the inheritor of his blessing (Genesis 28). SEE MESOPOTAMIA.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Padan-aram
the plain of Aram, or the plain of the highlands, (Gen. 25:20; 28:2, 5-7; 31:18, etc.), commonly regarded as the district of Mesopotamia (q.v.) lying around Haran.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Padan Aram
“The flat land of Aram,” contrasted with the more mountainous region of the N. and N.E. of Mesopotamia (Hos 12:12), “the field (sedeh) of Aram” (Gen 25:20), the same as Aram Naharaim, “Aram of the two rivers,” or Mesopotamia. (See MESOPOTAMIA.) (Gen 24:10). Aram expresses the highland of Syria, contrasted with the lowland of Canaan. The land between Tigris and Euphrates is a vast flat, except where the Sinjar range intersects it. The home of Rebekah, Laban, etc.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Padan-aram
Padan-aram [ARAM]
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Padan-Aram
H6307
See Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Padan-aram
Padan-aram (p’dan-‘ram), the low highland, where Abraham got a wife for bis son Isaac, Gen 25:20; Gen 28:2; Gen 28:5; Gen 28:7, and Jacob found his wives, and where Laban lived. Gen 31:18; Gen 33:18; Gen 35:9; Gen 35:26; Gen 46:15. It is the region between the two great rivers Euphrates and Tigris.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Padan-Aram
called also Sedan-Aram in Hosea; both names denoting Aram or Syria the fruitful, or cultivated, and apply to the northern part of Mesopotamia, in which Haran or Charran was situated. See MESOPOTAMIA.