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Paddan Aram or Padan-aram was an early Aramean kingdom in Mesopotamia. Paddan Aram in Aramaic means the field of Aram.^[1]The name may correspond to the Hebrew “sedeh Aram,” or “field of Aram.” (Rashi to Gen. 25:20; e.g., Hos. 12:13.)
The city of Harran, where Abraham and his father Terah settled after leaving Ur of the Chaldees, while en route to Canaan, according to the Genesis 11:31, was located in Paddan Aram, that part of Aram Naharaim that lay along the Euphrates. Abraham sent his head-servant back to this place to find a wife for Isaac, Abraham's son. The steward found Rebekah, who satisfied and exceeded the requirements set forth by Abraham.


Abraham’s nephew Bethuel, son of Nahor and Milcah, and father of Laban and Rebekah, lived in Padan-aram. (Gen. 25:20.) Isaac and Rebekah sent Jacob there, away from Esau, to take refuge, and to marry a niece of Rebekah, a daughter of Laban, rather than a Canaanite as Esau had done. (Gen. 28:1-2.) There Jacob worked for Laban, fathered eleven sons and a daughter, Dinah, (Gen. 35:22-26; 46:15), and amassed livestock and wealth. (Gen. 31:18.) From there, Jacob went to Shechem and the Land of Israel, where his twelfth son was born to him. (Gen. 33:18.)

Aram (Syria) Aram is the Hebrew name for Syria, the region sandwiched between the Euphrates and Palestine. But there are quite a few more Arams mentioned in the Bible. Aram is the name of a son of Shem, who is a son of Noah (Gen10:22). The next Aram is a son of Kemuel, who is a son of Nahor with Milca (Genesis 22:21). Aram number three is a son of Shemer, son of Heber, son of Beriah, son of Asher, son of Jacob with Zilpah (1 Chronicles 7:34). Aram is also the name of a district in Gilead (1 Chronicles 2:23), and a region in Mesopotamia (see Paddan Aram). The name Aram comes probably from the common Hebrew verb (rum) meaning to be high, rise up. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names reads High, Elevated. NOBS Study Bible Name List reads Elevated. However, there is an assumed Hebrew root ('rm) that, according to BDB Theological Dictionary, may indeed have something to do with the Hebrew word (rum) and which is identical to our name. The meaning of the root was lost over the ages, but a derivation stands to this day: ('armon), meaning citadel or palace. The use of this word is largely limited to the often returning message that God will burn up the various "palaces" of certain nations (Amos 1:3, 7, 10, 12). Palaces were typically built on elevations, but symbolically they denoted the capital of nations, their apices. Other names derived of the verb rum are Abram, Abiram, Adoniram, Ahiram, Amram, Armageddon, Armoni, Hadoram, Hiram, Jarmuth, Jehoram, Jeremai, Jeremiah, Jeremoth, Jerimoth, Joram, Paddam-aram, Reumah, Rumah, Ram, Ramah, Ramath, Ramathite, Ramath-lehi, Ramoth, Ramathaim-zophim and Romamti-ezer.

 By the 19th century BCE, Harran was established as a merchant outpost due to its ideal location. The community, well established before then, was situated along a trade route between the Mediterranean and the plains of the middle Tigris.^[8] It lay directly on the road from Antioch eastward to Nisibis and Ninevah. 

 Nusaybin (pronounced [nuˈsajbin]; Akkadian: Naṣibina;^[3] Classical Greek Nisibis, Νίσιβις; Syriac: ܢܨܝܒܝܢ, Niṣībīn; Armenian: Մծբին, Mtsbin; Kurdish: Nisêbîn) is a city in Mardin Province, Turkey. The population of the city is 83,832^[4] as of 2009. It is populated mainly by ethnic Kurds. The neighboring Syrian city of Qamishli is basically an extension of the city of Nisibin,


 Naşibīna was an Aramaean kingdom captured by the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II in 896.^[6] By 852 BC, Naṣibina had been fully annexed to the Neo-Assyrian Empire and appeared in the Assyrian Eponym List as the seat of an Assyrian provincial governor named Shamash-Abua.^[7] It remained part of the Assyrian Empire until its collapse in 608 BC.^{[citation needed]}
It was under Babylonian control until 536 BC, when it fell to the Achamaenid Persians, and remained so until taken by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. The Seleucids refounded the city as Antiochia Mygdonia (Greek: Αντιόχεια της Μυγδονίας), mentioned for the first time in Polybius' description of the march of Antiochus III the Great against Molon (Polybius, V, 51). Greek historian Plutarch suggested that the city was populated by Spartan descendants. Around the 1st century AD, Nisibis (נציבין, Netzivin) was the home of Judah ben Bethera, who founded a famous yeshiva there.^[8]


 Padan or Padan-aram = "field"