פַּדָּן
Padan-aram
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6307 appears — 11 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 11 verses
- Genesis 25:20 מִ/פַּדַּ֖ן אֲרָ֑ם prep + n Proper n Proper Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
- Genesis 28:2 פַּדֶּ֣נָֽ/ה אֲרָ֔ם n Proper + sfx dem n Proper Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
- Genesis 28:5 פַּדֶּ֣נָֽ/ה אֲרָ֑ם n Proper + sfx dem n Proper Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
- Genesis 28:6 פַּדֶּ֣נָֽ/ה אֲרָ֔ם n Proper + sfx dem n Proper Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 28:7 פַּדֶּ֥נָֽ/ה אֲרָֽם n Proper + sfx dem n Proper and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
- Genesis 31:18 בְּ/פַדַּ֣ן אֲרָ֑ם prep + n Proper n Proper and he carried away all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gathered, the cattle of his getting, which he had gathered in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father to the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 33:18 מִ/פַּדַּ֣ן אֲרָ֑ם prep + n Proper n Proper Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
- Genesis 35:9 מִ/פַּדַּ֣ן אֲרָ֑ם prep + n Proper n Proper God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
- Genesis 35:26 בְּ/פַדַּ֥ן אֲרָֽם prep + n Proper n Proper The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
- Genesis 46:15 בְּ/פַדַּ֣ן אֲרָ֔ם prep + n Proper n Proper These are the sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
- Genesis 48:7 מִ/פַּדָּ֗ן prep + n Proper As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem)."
About this entry
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פדן — transliterated Paddân — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Padan-aram.” More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Genesis. It appears 11 verses across 1 book of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 25:20. See 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6307 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,462
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 11 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 11 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Padanaram 10×
- American Standard Version: Paddan-aram 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: In 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Paddan 11×, Aram 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6307 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6307 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6307 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6307 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Padan or Padan-aram = "field"
- a plain or tableland in northern Mesopotamia in Aram, a region of Syria
Word origin
פַּדָּן 11 n.pr.loc. (? garden, field )
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to extend
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
פַּדָּן
- (פדד to cut)
- 1. ploughshare, plough. Targ. I Sam. XIII, 20.—Num. R. s. 8; Pesik. R. s. 23-24, v. סִכָּא. Lam. R. to I, 16 שרי תורך ושרי פַדְנָךְ untie thy oxen, and untie (take apart) thy plough (Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ top קנקנך); a. e.—Pl. פַּדְנִין, פַּדְנַיָּא. Targ. I Sam. XIII, 21.
- 2. (with תורי, or sub. תורי) yoke of (plough-) oxen, pair (corresp. to h. צמד). Targ. Hos. X, 10; a. fr.—B. Kam. 96ᵇ.—Pl. as ab. Targ. Job I, 3; a. fr.
- 3. פַּדַּן אֲרָם (b. h.) pr. n. pl. Paddan-Aram. Targ. Gen. XXV, 20; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms H6307 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲרָ֑ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:20 | 5 |
| אֲרָ֔ם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 28:2 | 3 |
| פַּדֶּ֣נָֽ/ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 28:2 | 3 |
| אֲרָֽם | Noun, Proper | Genesis 28:7 | 2 |
| בְּ/פַדַּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 31:18 | 2 |
| מִ/פַּדַּ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 33:18 | 2 |
| בְּ/פַדַּ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 35:26 | 1 |
| מִ/פַּדַּ֖ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:20 | 1 |
| מִ/פַּדָּ֗ן | Noun, Proper | Genesis 48:7 | 1 |
| פַּדֶּ֥נָֽ/ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 28:7 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Padan-aram). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The plain of Aram, or the plain of the highlands, (Gen. 25:20; 28:2, 5-7; 31:18, etc.), commonly regarded as the district of Mesopotamia (q.v.) lying around Haran.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
By this name, which signifies the table-land of Aram, i.e. Syriac, the Hebrews designated the tract of country which they otherwise called the Aram-naharaim, "Aram of the two of rivers," the Greek Mesopotamia, (Genesis 24:10) and "the field (Authorized Version,'country') of Syria." (Hosea 12:13) The term was perhaps more especially applied to that portion which bordered on the Euphrates, to distinguish if from the mountainous districts in the north and northeast of Mesopotamia. It is elsewhere called Padan simply. (Genesis 48:7) Abraham obtained a wife for Isaac from Padan-aram. (Genesis 25:20) Jacob's wives were also from Padan-aram, (Genesis 28:2,5,6,7; 31:1-8; 33:18)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
cultivated field or table-land
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 11 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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