padan · Paddan-aram

What it means

padan (פַּדָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Paddan-aram”.

The plain of Aram in northern Mesopotamia, where Rebekah's family lived.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Paddan-aram ×20
• Paddan ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.

• Genesis 28:2

  Get up, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take for yourself from there a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

• Genesis 28:5

  So Isaac sent away Jacob, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

• Genesis 28:6

  Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take for himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

• Genesis 28:7

  and that Jacob had listened to his father and to his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

• Genesis 31:18

  He drove off all his livestock and all his property that he had acquired, the livestock in his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 33:18

  Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped in front of the city.

• Genesis 35:9

  Elohim appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and he blessed him.

• Genesis 35:26

  The sons of Zilpah, Leah’s slave woman: Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.

• Genesis 46:15

  These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, and Dinah his daughter; all the persons of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.

• Genesis 48:7

  As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is Bethlehem.”

And 10 more times.