paran, (, pa’ran, , ‘el-pa’ran; , Pharan):<\/p>\n
(1) El-paran (Gen 14:6) was the point farthest South reached by the kings. Septuagint renders , ‘el by , terebinthos, and reads, unto the terebinth of Paran. The evidence is slender, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that this is the place elsewhere (Deu 2:8; 1Ki 9:26, etc.) called Elath or Eloth (, ‘el with feminine termination), a seaport town which gave its name to the Aelanitic Gulf (modern Gulf of Akaba), not far from the wilderness of Paran (2).<\/p>\n
(2) Many places named in the narrative of the wanderings lay within the Wilderness of Paran (Num 10:12; Num 13:21; Num 27:14; compare Num 13:3, Num 13:16, etc.). It is identified with the high limestone plateau of Et-Tih, stretching from the Southwest of the Dead Sea to Sinai along the west side of the Arabah. This wilderness offered hospitality to Ishmael when driven from his father’s tent (Gen 21:21). Hither also came David when bereaved of Samuel’s protection (1Sa 25:1).<\/p>\n
(3) Mount Paran (Deu 33:2; Hab 3:3) may be either Jebel Makrah, 29 miles South of Ain Kadis (Kadesh-barnea), and 130 miles North of Sinai (Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, 510); or the higher and more imposing range of mountains West of the Gulf of Akaba. This is the more probable if El-paran is rightly identified with Elath.<\/p>\n
(4) Some place named Paran would seem to be referred to in Deu 1:1; but no trace of such a city has yet been found. Paran in 1Ki 11:18 doubtless refers to the district West of the Arabah.<\/p>\n
Paran, El-Paran paran, (, pa’ran, , ‘el-pa’ran; , Pharan): (1) El-paran (Gen 14:6) was the point farthest South reached by the kings. Septuagint renders , ‘el by , terebinthos, and reads, unto the terebinth of Paran. The evidence is slender, but it is not unreasonable to suppose that this is the place elsewhere (Deu 2:8; … Continue reading “Paran, El-Paran”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}