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PADDAN-ARAM

(Heb. paddan-ʾărām)
(also PADDAN)

An area around Haran in upper Mesopotamia. Usually translated “Field of Aram” (cf. Hos. 12:12[MT 13]), Paddan-aram is generally regarded as an alternate designation for Aram-naharaim, the territory encompassed by the great bend of the Euphrates River. A few scholars have argued that the term was an Aramaic rendering of the city name Haran. The exact location of Paddan-aram is not known.

All biblical occurrences refer to the homeland of Abraham’s family. Rebekah was from Paddan-aram (Gen. 25:20); Isaac sent Jacob there to procure a wife (28:2-7); Jacob sojourned with Laban at Paddan-aram, and most of his sons were born there (35:26; 46:15; cf. 48:7, Paddan).

Stephen J. Andrews






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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