Padan Aram
pad'-an-a'-ram or p.-ar'-am (paddan 'aram; Septuagint
Mesopotamia tes Surias; the King James Version Padan-aram):
In Gen 48:7, Paddan stands alone, but as the Septuagint,
Sam, and Peshitta read "Aram" also, it must in this verse
have dropped out of the Massoretic Text. In the time of
Abraham, padanu occurs on the Babylonian contract-tablets as...
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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, Ge 24:10 and "the field
(Authorized Version,'country') of Syria." Ho 12:13 The term
was perhaps more especially applied to that portion...
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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....
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"The flat land of Aram," contrasted with the more mountainous
region of the N. and N.E. of Mesopotamia (Hosea 12:12), "the
field (sedeh) of Aram" (Genesis 25:20), the same as Aram
Naharaim, "Aram of the two rivers," or Mesopotamia. (See
MESOPOTAMIA.) (Genesis 24:10). Aram expresses the highland of
Syria, contrasted with the lowland of Canaan. ...
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And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in
the land of Canaan in the way, when yet [there was] but a
little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the
way of Ephrath; the same [is] Bethlehem....
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