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HebrewH6290Noun

פָּארָן

pa.ran

10Occurrences
H6290Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Paran, a desert of Arabia

from H6286 (פָּאַר); ornamental;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ Paran = "place of caverns" wilderness area bounded on the north by Palestine, on the west by the wilderness of Etham, on the south by the desert of Sinai, and on the east by the valley of Arabah; the exodus was through this area and probably all 18 stops were in this area

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

פָּארָן appears 10 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
4
Deuteronomy
2
1 Kings
1
1 Samuel
1
Genesis
1
Habakkuk
1

Key Passages

1 Kings 11:18BSB

Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men from Paran with them and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house and land and provided him with food.

Deuteronomy 1:1BSB

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan—in the Arabah opposite Suph—between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Genesis 21:21BSB

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Numbers 10:12BSB

and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.

Numbers 13:3BSB

So at the consent of the LORD, Moses sent them out from the Wilderness of Paran. All the men were leaders of the Israelites,

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.