אֲרָם
a.ram (H6307)
(Paddan)-aram
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# Aram in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *aram* (H6307) appears eleven times in the Bible and refers to a geographical region known as "(Paddan)-Aram." The term designates a specific area in the ancient Near East, often appearing with the qualifier "Paddan" (meaning "field" or "plain"), suggesting it was understood as the plain or field region of Aram. This dual naming convention indicates that biblical writers distinguished this particular territory from other places that might bear the name Aram. Based solely on the frequency and form of the term, *aram* functioned as a proper geographical marker rather than a common noun. With only eleven occurrences across the entire biblical text, it appears to have been a place of particular significance to the biblical narrative, though its limited usage suggests it was not a central focus of the overall scriptural account. The consistency of the designation across these references indicates it held a stable, recognized meaning within the biblical geographical framework. Without additional contextual data from the provided lexicon entry, the specific historical importance of this region or its connections to biblical events cannot be determined from this evidence alone. The entry confirms only that *Paddan-aram* was a recognized territorial designation in biblical geography that warranted its own lemma in Hebrew lexicography.
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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.
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.
Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
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 command, saying, “You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;”
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.
and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.
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.
God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.
The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
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.
As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”