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    Paddan

    פַּדָּן

    Paddan, also known as Paddan-aram or Aram, was the homeland of the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, located in Mesopotamia.

    Where the story of Paddan happens Where the gazetteer locates Paddan, framed to them: Paddan. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Paddan
    Where the gazetteer locates Paddan
    verses
    16
    first named
    Genesis 25:20
    last named
    Hosea 12:12
    feature
    region
    coordinates
    36.85°N · 38.90°E
    region36.85°N · 38.90°E

    Tell Feddan (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Paddan in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Paddan, also referred to as Paddan-aram or Aram, was a region in Mesopotamia that played a significant role in the lives of the biblical patriarchs. It was the homeland of Abraham's family, and the place where Isaac and Israel (or 'Jacob') found their wives (Gen. 25:20; 28:2, 5-7). The name "Paddan-aram" means "the plain of Aram" or "the field of Aram," referring to the area's geographical characteristics and its association with the Arameans.

    Rebekah, Isaac's wife, was from Paddan-aram (Gen. 25:20). Later, Jacob fled to Paddan-aram to escape his brother Esau's anger and to find a wife from among his relatives (Gen. 28:2, 5-7). During his time there, Jacob married Leah and Rachel and fathered eleven of his twelve sons (Gen. 35:23-26). Jacob eventually left Paddan-aram to return to Canaan with his family and possessions (Gen. 31:18; 33:18).

    The Arameans, who inhabited Paddan-aram, are mentioned as the ancestors of the Israelites in the context of God's deliverance and blessing (Deut. 26:5). The prophet Hosea also refers to Jacob's flight to Paddan-aram and his service for a wife (Hos. 12:12).

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

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    The pattern

    Where Paddan is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 16 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS13 VERSESHOSEA1 VERSE22 books and 675 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 16 verses across 4 of 66 books; 62 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSGENESIS13 VERSESHOSEA1 VERSE22 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Paddan is named in 16 verses, and the name is written 19 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 62 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 4 books. The name is written 19 times in them.

    1. Genesis13 verses

      25:2028:228:528:628:731:1831:2031:2433:1835:935:2646:1548:7

    2. Numbers1 verse

      23:7

    3. Deuteronomy1 verse

      26:5

    4. Hosea1 verse

      12:12

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via BethuelBuzSon of Nahor, Abraham's brothervia BethuelChesedSon of Nahor, Abraham's nephewvia BethuelGahamSon of Nahor and Reumah.via BethuelHazoA son of Nahor, Abraham's brother.via BethuelJidlaphSon of Nahor and Milcahvia BethuelKemuelA son of Nahor and Milcahvia BethuelLabanBrother of Rebekah; father of Leah and Rachelvia BethuelMaacahConcubine of Nahor, Abraham's brothervia BethuelMilcahWife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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