Padan-aram

A remarkable place in Jacob’s history. (See Gen. 28. 6.) From Padan, of the field - - and Aram, Syria.

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.

Pa´dan-a´ram [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.\par

"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.

Padan-aram (pâ’dan-â’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.