Padan, Padanaram
Padan, Padanaram
[Pa’dan] [Pa’dan-a’ram]
A cultivated district in Mesopotamia, in which was the city of Nahor, to which Terah and his family migrated from Ur of the Chaldees; and from whence Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel, the wives of Isaac and Jacob, were obtained. Gen 25:20; Gen 28:2-7; Gen 31:18; Gen 33:18; Gen 35:9; Gen 35:26; Gen 46:15. It is strictly Paddan-aram, signifying ‘table land of Aram.’ Mesopotamia is the translation of Padan-aram both in the LXX and the Vulgate. In Gen 48:7 it is simply PADAN.