Padan — the meaning of the Hebrew name פַּדָּן

פַּדָּן

Paddân · pronounced pad-dawn' · Strong's H6307 · a place · also spelled Padan-aram

Padan means a plateau.

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Strong's definition

from an unused root meaning to extend; a plateau; or פַּדַּן אֲרָם; from the same and H758; the table-land of Aram; Paddan or Paddan-Aram, a region of Syria.

First appearance

Gen 25:20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian. (KJV)

Every verse that names Padan

11 occurrences in 11 verses — Genesis

Gen 25:20Gen 28:2Gen 28:5Gen 28:6Gen 28:7Gen 31:18Gen 33:18Gen 35:9Gen 35:26Gen 46:15Gen 48:7

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